What does life look like as we live life on mission with a God-driven purpose? How does seeing our work through a Godly perspective change our daily lives? God's Word encourages and challenges us in both of these areas!

Why should we as Christians celebrate big and connect small? Why do we need each other? Why do we need the Church? God's Word encourages us to gather weekly with His people and to be deeply connected to other Christians.

Praise the Lord: it's not cliche, it's our calling. Psalm 113 walks us as Christians through Praising God because He is so high and yet has come so low. Our response to this glorious God is to praise Him.

As we continue in our series where we are looking at God's Songbook for his people, we find songs that we can sing in our pain and suffering. God wants us to sing out pain and suffering to him- that's verse one- but there is also a second verse and when we learn to sing it, it will draw us closer to him and His love.

This song is about the intersection of God and man. When we truly behold this God, the King of Glory, we will journey through life singing His Greatness, His Goodness, and our joyful surrender to Him.

This week we began a new series entitled Psalm- A Soundtrack for our lives. Darcy Dueck takes us to Psalm 8.

"I'm the only one left" Elijah complained. God brought Elisha into his life, not to replace him but to give him purpose and community. The last ten years of Elisha's life were arguable his best: establishing multiple schools of prophets whose lives were deeply impacted by him, and mentoring Elisha would carry on his ministry with even grater power.

James tells us that Elijah was a person "just like us". Elijah hid in a cave when he was overcome with despair, but God came to him in gentleness and compassion, bringing practical help and manageable tasks to restore tis person he cared so deeply about. God cares for us when we go through dark times as well, and we can learn a lot from how He encourage Elijah.

The story of Jonah is not just about a whale…although that part of the story is hard to forget!  Instead Jonah is primarily the story of a flawed, disobedient prophet who was given a second chance.  A story of God’s great mercy to violent enemies, but also his mercy to reluctant prophets.

To be left-handed in the Old Testament was to be “weak in the right hand.” It was seen to be unusual, even a defect, since the right hand was the hand of strength. God loves to use unusual and marginalized people to accomplish his purposes for his people and for the world.