Yesterday was an incredible time reflecting on Jesus - His coming, His death, His resurrection, and His great love. Let us continue in that reflection this morning, so that the significance of celebrating Jesus’ resurrection is not limited to one day a year, but a joy and gratitude we can live in often.A poem called “The Blood That Built a Bridge” or “The Great Love” was shared yesterday and gav...  Read More

“So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud ‘No!’ to the Devil and watch him make himself scarce. Say a quiet yes to God and he’ll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it’s the only way you’ll get on your feet....  Read More

35 Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. John 6:35This passage and context of everything around it is so crazy important!  Take some time today reading through John 6, it starts off with the feeding of the 5000 and then Jesus walking on the water.  Jesus was doing these incredible miracles that only hap...  Read More

Each one of us have grown up participating in different traditions within our different cultures, some we understand and some we don’t.  If Jesus is our Lord and Savior, I believe all need to be looked through the lens that Jesus talks about here in Mark 2:18-22, message version.18 The disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees made a practice of fasting. Some people confronted Jesus: “W...  Read More

Biblical fasting is the act of giving up food for a period of time so that I can draw near to God, as I draw near to God, He draws near to me just as it says in James 4:8 yet check out what it says on either side of the underlined verse.7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinner...  Read More

Friday, March 27thWorship is connecting, surrendering, and responding to the revelation of who God is and what wants to do in us and through us.The last observation of worship I want to spend some time on is worship as a response. Specifically, worship is a weapon. An offensive weapon and a defensive weapon. Worship can prepare us and equip us.Simply put, we were born on a battlefield between good...  Read More

Saturday, March 28thBonus faith challenge this week.My final encouragement, in our response to worship is; worship and prayer aren’t about changing our circumstances, even though they may. Worship and prayer are about changing us and those around us.Notice the power of this passage, especially according to their circumstances.Acts 16:22-25- 22 The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas,...  Read More

Friday, March 26thWorship is connecting, surrendering, and responding to the revelation of who God is and what wants to do in us and through us.The last observation of worship I want to spend some time on is worship as a response. Specifically, worship is a weapon. An offensive weapon and a defensive weapon. Worship can prepare us and equip us.Simply put, we were born on a battlefield between good...  Read More

Thursday, March 26thToday’s emphasis is on surrender.  How will you respond to The One who surrendered his life for you? Read through Revelation 4-5 titled “Worshipping God in heaven”.   Notice how things are repeated 3 times, it’s to emphasize perfection and completeness. Holy means "set apart” so holy, holy, holy is the expression of God’s perfect “set apart-ness”, His being placed in His rightf...  Read More

How do you define worship?  What does it mean to you?We often limit the idea of worship as being solely musical, a reciting of words to a beat with notated melody.  Yet, how easy is it to go through the motions?  We have music playing in the background while we work, we can almost unconsciously sing the lyrics without awareness of the meaning of what we are saying or the intention behind it.  At t...  Read More

Tuesday, March 24thWorship is connecting, surrendering and responding to the revelation of who God is and what He wants to do in us and through us.This first aspect of worship I want to pause on today is how worship reveals who God is or worship is the revelation of who God is and what he has done.Notice how David is inviting the people to worship who God is and what he has done.1 Chronicles 16:7-...  Read More

Monday, March 22Our discussion this week is a unique one, because there are some who absolutely love this, others who don’t mind, but are confused, and others that don’t want to really have anything to do with it.Think about it. Where else do you experience corporate singing? Singing together in public places?Sure birthdays? We sing Happy birthday.Some say karaoke, but I don’t think so because you...  Read More