Thoughts of Thaddeus

We know it's not based on us...

but we also struggles as if it is! 

Two big truths that we need to respond to:

1. We are created BY God

2. We are created FOR God

First episode of the second season!

In the end (hopefully) season of this COVID, how does crisis accelerate our lives? What does it reveal to us?

"What the enemy meant for evil, You turned it for good..."

How does the truth of this song live out in our everyday lives?

How does it challenge us to re-think the situations and circumstances of our lives?

No one is too lost in sin for grace...and no one is too righteous for the need for grace in their lives!

"Prone to wander, Lord I feel it!"

Can we really be... real? Transparency and authenticity is at great risk in communities of faith!

We all are created with our own unique personalities and giftings...could it be that even under the "house rules" as a child of God, our walks with Jesus can be unique and different as well?

God calls us to have be in unity, not conformity. We are strengthened by our differences! 

If God is all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful...then why does evil exist?

It's probably one of the biggest questions that shakes the faith of so many.

What is a basic response we can have to this question?

Everyone of us are getting ready to walk into a storm, are currently in one, or just about to walk out of a storm...

Just for the whole cycle to start over and over and over again.

But how do we respond in those storms of life? Or valleys? Or fires? 

Three Words: Examples, Expectations, Encouragement!

What brings me to my knees in studying how God is just, is that He chose to be the justifier.

Our ability to forgive and not seek revenge may puzzle this world, may it create in those a curiosity to find our motivation...or better, our Motivator!