God speaks. Jesus is called The Word. God wants to talk with you. We see examples all through the Bible of God talking to his people.Jesus wants to talk to you. He calls you by name. He knows you. He wants you to know him and to know his voice, so that he can lead you into a wonderful life.

Sometimes life is real hard. Suffering. Sorrow. Trauma. PainJesus wants us to not be surprised when things get hard. In fact, all of creation is frustrated by the way things are today.Jesus has prepared the way. God is for us. God is not condemning us or charging us.Instead, he has made us more than conquerors. The Spirit helps us in our weakness, interceding for us. God even goes so far as to take the evil that was thrown at us and works good through it.

Faith is looking into the past. Hope is looking into the future. Love is the present.

Shalom. Faith. Hope. Love.

Shalom Shattered. Betrayal. Powerlessness. Ambivalence

Shalom Sought. Orphan. Stranger. Widow.

Shalom Restored.Priest. Prophet. King

God has uniquely called you, and He has uniquely gifted you for service. That service can be summarized with one word - love. God has called us to love one another. We do that by using the gifts that He has given us. We do that by living from the desire that He has placed in us. We do it by putting the needs of others above our own.

I have been crucified with Christ.The world has been crucified to me, and I have been crucified to it.That sets me free!

Jesus has begun a magnificent job of restoring us. But he didn't just fix us up so that we would look good. He restored us so that we would life a life led by the Spirit. A life of loving others. A life of doing good for others. A life that reveals the heart of Jesus himself.

Jesus birth was the initial event of his rescue of mankind. What a holy night it was.

Those who belong to Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, and now live by the Spirit. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Can you even dream of being free?Our slave mentality keeps us in such bondage, even though we have been given the keys to unlock the shackles, we prefer them, they are safer.Can you handle some freedom?

Diversity is a great thing. We celebrate diversity. You are uniquely you. No one else is like you. Praise God that he made you the way that he made you.Now all of us bring our diversity into unity because of Jesus. Jesus makes us one.