Youth First Podcast

Being salt and light in the world is not a compliment, it's a responsibility. They are not optional, but rather obligations for the believer. It's important to be salt and light because it helps us spread the Gospel not only with the way we talk, but more importantly in the way we live.

Every relationship is either pushing you toward the Kingdom of God or pulling you away from it and Jesus, and we want you to do relationships the Kingdom way! We don't want you to know how to cheat, but give you cheat codes in how to succeed in your relationships so that you won't prematurely commit to vows and a covenant that you're not ready to keep or have no intention of honoring.

There has to be a point in our walk with the Lord where there is no turning back. Where our prayer is, "More of You and less of me God, where I am nothing without You." We can't hold on so tightly to our will, our dreams, our plans, or our lives that we completely shut out God. If we never accomplish another thing in this life but we have God... We have everything.

The Kingdom of God is the culture of heaven expressed through the character and the life of the believer. The Kingdom is what life looks like when God has His way and will. It's the rule of God, exercised through the Spirit of God in the people of God for the glory of God. That's what it's like.

First Things First simply means having proper priorities... Ensuring that your life is in order. Order gives us the freedom to respond to God quickly. Order is putting God first and everything else in its proper place.

There is nothing more consequential to your life than choices. There is nothing more detrimental t your life than decisions. Decisions can develop you or destroy you. Either way it's your choice: Decisions, decisions.

Forgiveness is the first and greatest act of generosity. It is the purest form of giving because it gives without return. God modeled this with Jesus. In other words, forgiveness gives freedom to people who deserve it and that's the Gospel! That's what being generous means and we can't talk about being generous without talking about Jesus!

In our series we've talked about the importance of time, eternity, perspective, assignment and purpose. All believers have a common mission, it's called the Great Commission! It's a commanded mission and we must be actively doing it. But in order to do that we must live disciplined lives as disciples of Jesus and that means having holy habits. It's putting ourselves in positions, places and a heart posture of let God touch and transform our lives!

If you want your life to change, you have to change how and where you spend your time... And if you want to be with God, you must be willing to go where time doesn't matter. Where nothing else matters but Him, because spending time with God is never time wasted, it is always time invested. And yes it's true that we don't have as much time as we think, that time is running out, but we still have time, it's not too late yet... It's TIME to CHANGE!

We are in a series called It's Time to Ride and we've been talking about living with eternity in mind. In this message we look at a moment in time where Isaiah the prophet encounters the divine, supernatural presence of God. In this we see the reality that in the presence of a most holy God is where we realize how unholy we truly are, and as a result we have one response that can be summed up in the phrase The Time is Now! There is a day coming when we will worship the Lord out of obligation and not opportunity. As it is written in John 4:23, The Time is NOW! And we ask you the same questions, what are you doing with your time? Where will you spend eternity as a result of how you spent your time? We believe right NOW is the right TIME to do the right THING!