Tuesday, March 17thJesus redefines greatness through humility and shows us that at the cross. Serving pushes against pride. But I think serving can be sneaky and should push against those of us who are over responsible. Because there are some of you thinking, I’m already serving people a ton. I hardly have time to take care of myself and now I feel guilty that I’m not doing enough.Hold that though...  Read More

Monday, March 16thI don’t know about you, but how do you interact with “greatness”?Think about it in a couple of different ways. First, how do we define greatness? Or even what is the greatest?We have greatest of all time lists. Greatest actors of all time? Greatest musicians of all time? Greatest leaders of all time? We have lists for athletes; greatest basketball player of all time- Jordan, Kobe...  Read More

Thursday, March 12thGenerosity reflects who God is, reveals who we are, and declares who we trust. Generosity demonstrates our trust in God.Read Matthew 6:21-24- 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darknes...  Read More

Thursday, March 12thGenerosity reveals the intention of our heart. Generosity reveals who we are.Notice Matthew 6:1-4- “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be...  Read More

Wednesday, March 11thFor the rest of the week, I want us to hang out in Matthew 6. This passage is in the middle of what we call the Sermon on the Mount. The longest teaching of Jesus we have in one place. It is easy for us to break it apart and isolate sections, but I’m not sure if that was Matthew’s intention when writing it. Sure, Jesus may or may not have shared all of this in one sitting. But...  Read More

Tuesday, March 10thYesterday we looked at God’s image and intention with generosity through creation. But then comes Genesis 3 and everything is distorted. Evil comes on the scene and asks two revealing questions that we battle with to this day.Did God really say that? Is God holding out on you? That’s essentially what he asked Adam and Eve, creating doubt in God’s truth and can he be trusted? Whi...  Read More

Monday, March 9thLet me start today with this question. What is God known for? What identifies who God is? What is he about? The image does he bear? What is he known for?Off the bat, we think love, forgiveness, grace, truth. I agree and more. But there’s a word that I think we overlook that impacts them all; generous. God is a God of generous love, generous forgiveness, generous grace, generous tr...  Read More

P.R.A.Y.- Pause, Rejoice, Ask, Yield.  Read More

P.R.A.Y.- Pause, Rejoice, Ask, Yield.   Read More

Wednesday, March 4th P.R.A.Y- Pause, Rejoice, Ask, Yield.Today we are going to focus on Rejoice- taking the time to praise, celebrate, appreciate God, his character, his goodness, his love.Sure when you are in a tough place, that can be hard to do, but it can also be seeing the little things to be thanktul tor.Psalm 104:33-34-33 / will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as ...  Read More

For the rest of this week, I want to give you a simple acronym that Pete Greig shares in his book.  Read More

This week’s Faith Essential is prayer. Which may sound obvious and a bit delayed in talking about. But I think if we are honest, many of us can struggle with prayer.  Read More