In all likelihood, the person you lie to the most is yourself! What would happen if we told ourselves the truth? What would happen if we grounded our self-understanding in our relationship with God?

Why is it so hard to ask for what we want from the people that want to love us well? The answer is a mix of pride, fear, and magical thinking. If we lean in to the truth of the Gospel, we can learn to relate to one another in love.

All of us engage in a mental dance when we see people in need or problems in our world. Our desire to help collides with the limits of our resources, and sometimes we get stuck in inaction. Jesus followers are called to love with action and in truth.

Our minds have incredible potential for creativity and imagination. In that potential there is the power to help or hurt, ourselves as well as others. When we recognize this, we can partner with God to unleash our imaginations to dream big dreams for ourselves, our families, and our community.

We sin because we believe a sneaky little lie about what will make us happy. We are easily tempted into sin because we refuse to trust that God is good and that what He wants for us is only our deepest happiness. Uncover the lie and temptation begins to lose its power to bring chaos into your story.

We like to think of ourselves as logical and rational creatures, but the truth is we are highly emotional, relational beings that can be decieved and manipulated. When you understand the battle for your mind, you understand how important it is to pay attention to what you pay attention to!

What is God like? This is almost a universal question, where the hearts of human beings reach to comprehend the transcendent with wonder and awe. Jesus claimed that He came to reveal the nature of God, to make God knowable. If you know Jesus, then you know what God is like!

Jesus left behind the majesty of heaven for the humility of earth. His birth narrative underlines the truth that Jesus has come to turn the world upside down. He has come to rescue, to heal, and to save. And he came to the common people, among the common people.

As we start the Advent season, we look at the name given to Jesus: Immanuel, which is the recognition that God is with us. This promise was first heard by a king named Ahaz, but it was rejected. Decades later, the promise came to a man named Joseph, and it was embraced.

Jesus described The Kingdom of God as an extravagant banquet where everyone is invited, even those you might least suspect. However, not everyone will accept this incredible invitation.