As we go through big changes in our local and global church, we have the opportunity to find new ways to help people know God's love for them.

There are different ways to deal with a culture that doesn't always agree with what Christ taught us. We can surrender to it. We can set ourselves apart from it. Or we can do as Jesus did, be part of it and transform it.

Because we have received great mercy in our lives, we have the opportunity to show mercy to others.

There are lots of reasons not to go to church, and just one good reason to go: to Worship God.

We leave the comfort of home and put our trust in God as we follow Jesus.

We have to say goodbye to the comfortable things we trust in now, in order to say hello to the new life that comes from trusting God.

The Rev. Erica Allen challenges us to be honest about the walls we're facing that get in the way of us achieving the promises and goodness that God has for us. How do we break down these walls?

What does freedom mean to you? Paul tells us freedom in Christ is the freedom to love our neighbor as ourselves.

What can we learn from the miraculous birth of Samuel, and his mother and father's vow to dedicate his life to the Lord? God trusts us with the gift of children. How do we respond to that gift?

What is important about the Trinity is not explaining how 1+1+1=1, but why God exists as the Trinity. What are we supposed to learn from the relationship aspects of the Trinity about living in community?