Posts with the category “daily-faith-challenges”

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

What are the steps we need to take in community? Especially if we want to grow and heal in our faith journey.  Read More

Before we go any further, some of you may be thinking. Who is my community? What is the level of community I need to have?  Read More

Remember, we can’t follow Jesus alone, we must be people of love. If we are to live that out, we need to reframe how we see relationships and that starts by going back to the beginning...  Read More

I want to pick up where we left yesterday and it go back to my original observations...  Read More

Monday, February 23rdThis week, how do we have a conversation about something we don’t necessarily want, yet desperately need? How do we have a conversation about something we are fearful of, yet is the catalyst for growth? How do we have a conversation about something we have been hurt by, yet is the avenue of healing?The truth is you CAN’T follow Jesus alone. The entire point of the spiritual jo...  Read More

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.  Read More

The thing about being addicted to something is we get stuck in a crazy cycle of spiraling of choosing our choice of numbing substance...  Read More

The Oxford Dictionary defines addiction as the condition of being unable to stop using or doing something as a habit, especially something harmful.   Read More

How differently would New Life function if we ALL knew our gifting God graced us with and then we served each other from a humble position of that gifting?   Read More

I don’t know about you but hearing from our friends and brothers in Christ yesterday from Samaritans Hand was eye opening as well as encouraging!   Read More

Faith That Acts (Habakkuk 2:4 ESV; James 2:17 NIV)  Read More

Faith That Perseveres (Hebrews 12:1–2 NASB 1977)  Read More

Faith That Perseveres (Hebrews 12:1–2 NASB 1977)  Read More

Faith Through Trials (Romans 8:28 NIV)  Read More

Understanding Faith (Hebrews 11:1 ESV)  Read More

Would like you to read this passage again. Galatians 5:16-18...  Read More

With one word, parakletos, Jesus is getting our attention that the Holy Spirit is one who is called to come alongside to help, that he is our Advocate, Comforter, Counselor and Teacher...  Read More

We are continuing our conversation about the names Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit, specifically in John 14, with the Greek word parakletos (pa-ra-klay-tos), “one called alongside to help.” Yesterday we looked at Advocate and Comforter...  Read More

Today and tomorrow, I want us to look John 14 and see how Jesus identifies the Holy Spirit...  Read More

We are continuing our series on Faith Essentials, what is essential to your faith journey? A few weeks ago we started the conversation around the Holy Spirit.   Read More

The lyrics of The Blessing follow scripture found in Numbers 6:24-26. “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”   Read More

Heavenly Father, I pray over today. I pray that I would be firmly planted within you, Lord Jesus. Make your ways known to me, help me to walk in obedience to you. Help me to step into the uncomfortable...  Read More

"My grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in your weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9  Read More

“Blessings in the highsBlessings in the lowsBlessings everywhere I goBlessings in the yesBlessings in the noBlessings everywhere I go”It's easy for me to look back and see the million blessings in the last two years of YAM. As I shared Sunday, I can see many blessings that have stemmed from even the hard things like being told “no” when I was used to and expecting a “yes.” But God has been remindi...  Read More

Our first Yam God showed up. Like minded, God loving, curious about the Word and wanting community people showed up. It’s pretty amazing God tells us time and time again He writes the story...  Read More

Acts 2:42 “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”...   Read More

Read John 20:22- 22 And with that Jesus breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. First glance, that sounds so weird. Who wants to be breathed on?...  Read More

Now, for a moment, let’s shift our attention to the disciples. Because the disciples are seeing all that Jesus is doing...  Read More

Let’s take a look at another instance of the Spirit in the Old Testament and I’m fascinated by this one. Notice one of the first people in the OT that is filled with the Holy Spirit...   Read More

This week we are going to look at two questions; who is the Holy Spirit and why does it matter...  Read More

“A life deeply rooted in Scripture is absolutely essential for a healthy relationship to God, self, others and the world at large. Equally essential is a life deeply rooted in the Holy Spirit who leads by experience and functions in partnership with Scripture.”   Read More

The “How-to” of the Bible has been study, meditate, and now memorize. Memorization allows scripture to be formed in our heart and mind...  Read More

The second word of “How-to”, meditate. Meditate in the Hebrew is hagah most literally means murmur, which refers to the ancient practice of people reading scripture quietly under their breath...  Read More

Yesterday you read Joshua 1:1-9, what did you discover?...  Read More

Today I want to give you space to study a passage. We are going to use the same passage from Sunday, Joshua 1;1-9...  Read More

Last week we talked about the what and the why of the Bible. We said that the Bible is God’s story and his story was broken into four chapters or four acts of a play; creation, fall, redemption, and consummation...  Read More

Over the next few days, I’m going to invite you into different passages throughout the Bible that talk about what scripture is and why it is important...  Read More

Over the next few days, I’m going to invite you into different passages throughout the Bible that talk about what scripture is and why it is important...  Read More