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

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