Contrary to what many have been taught to believe - that the Christian faith is safe and comfortable - any amount of time in the Bible will reveal that often the plan of God is more shocking than safe, and in the first week of this 4 part series, Paul explains from the small book of Malachi why God calls us to give him our worst and how giving God our worst actually frees us to receive his best.

Hopefully you've never experienced the awkwardness of going on a blind date with someone who is very different from what you expected - in a BAD way! Sometimes that can happen in church, too, unless we are very clear on the front end about who we are and why we do what we do the way we do it. In Discover The Gathering, we lay out simply what our vision is - to live near God in order to be sent to those far from him - and the mission we feel will accomplish it.

Hopefully you've never experienced the awkwardness of going on a blind date with someone who is very different from what you expected - in a BAD way! Sometimes that can happen in church, too, unless we are very clear on the front end about who we are and why we do what we do the way we do it. In Discover The Gathering, we lay out simply what our vision is - to live near God in order to be sent to those far from him - and the mission we feel will accomplish it.

Hopefully you've never experienced the awkwardness of going on a blind date with someone who is very different from what you expected - in a BAD way! Sometimes that can happen in church, too, unless we are very clear on the front end about who we are and why we do what we do the way we do it. In Discover The Gathering, we lay out simply what our vision is - to live near God in order to be sent to those far from him - and the mission we feel will accomplish it.

Hopefully you've never experienced the awkwardness of going on a blind date with someone who is very different from what you expected - in a BAD way! Sometimes that can happen in church, too, unless we are very clear on the front end about who we are and why we do what we do the way we do it. In Discover The Gathering, we lay out simply what our vision is - to live near God in order to be sent to those far from him - and the mission we feel will accomplish it.

In the final message from our journey through Acts, Paul explains that the hope of the church is that the King of the church cannot be stopped. That one truth gives us courage and faith to trust Jesus even when we experience hard times like the early church did in its beginnings. Knowing we serve a King who can't be stopped gives us the boldness we need as we continue to write the story of the church. The final chapter in Acts isn't the end, rather it's the end of the beginning. We carry the baton now.

In the final message from our journey through Acts, Paul explains that the hope of the church is that the King of the church cannot be stopped. That one truth gives us courage and faith to trust Jesus even when we experience hard times like the early church did in its beginnings. Knowing we serve a King who can't be stopped gives us the boldness we need as we continue to write the story of the church. The final chapter in Acts isn't the end, rather it's the end of the beginning. We carry the baton now.

In the final message from our journey through Acts, Paul explains that the hope of the church is that the King of the church cannot be stopped. That one truth gives us courage and faith to trust Jesus even when we experience hard times like the early church did in its beginnings. Knowing we serve a King who can't be stopped gives us the boldness we need as we continue to write the story of the church. The final chapter in Acts isn't the end, rather it's the end of the beginning. We carry the baton now.

In the final message from our journey through Acts, Paul explains that the hope of the church is that the King of the church cannot be stopped. That one truth gives us courage and faith to trust Jesus even when we experience hard times like the early church did in its beginnings. Knowing we serve a King who can't be stopped gives us the boldness we need as we continue to write the story of the church. The final chapter in Acts isn't the end, rather it's the end of the beginning. We carry the baton now.

The one thing that every human on the face of the planet has in common is the 100% chance of storms. All of us will face them at one time or another, and what we learned from Paul's life in the 34th week of our re | ACTS journey was that storms won't scare you when you let the Lord prepare you.