THINK: About how with change there is always temptation to not change. Especially when this change involves growing in Christ because we have an enemy that will stop at nothing to make us turn away from the change Jesus is bringing and bring us to him rather than Jesus. KNOW: Jesus was tempted and tried….
Sometimes God calls us to wait, and then we try to circumvent the journey to get to the destination quicker. Here is a quick live devotional I did on Facebook Live. Sorry about the poor camera quality. The cameraman is an amateur. God bless you all and remember God makes us lay down. Rest is…
I recently submitted a devotional for a book being published in the near future called Thy Geekdom Come 2, and I felt a need to share it because I think it really speaks into the heart of some of the themes we have been exploring at our church. It also reaches back to two messages…
Acts 9:1-31 Do people change? Can people change? This is the topic at hand as we continue in our series of New Beginnings. If people can’t change, then this hope of a new beginning is a hopeless endeavor. The truth is people in themselves don’t change, but Jesus can and will change people. (Audio Only)
It is the season of Christmas, and yes Christmas is a season and not a day. Christmas, begin the celebration of Jesus’ birth, is the season that comes after the season of anticipation known as Advent, being the season of preparation for Jesus’ birth. Meaning, like it or not, it is still Christmas, so if…
THINK: About if they are truly allowing Jesus to rebirth their lives, to the fullness of life he brings by making them new again as He has come to make them new. KNOW: Jesus has come to make things new. Jesus is the new thing God is doing and is the new thing God is…
On this Sunday of Advent, we discussed how love lives courageously when life wants to run away. We did this by looking at examples of from the birth of Jesus. Especially the example of Mary. Love overcomes fear. How can we share the love of Christ to help others overcome this Advent? (Audio Only)
Joy rescues us when we feel most broken. THINK: About how just the idea of Jesus brings joy. Even in the middle of the hardest brokenness and deepest of sorrows, and how much more joy the reality of Jesus can bring no matter how broken, sorrowful, or beaten we may feel we are. KNOW: In…
On this Sunday of Advent, we discussed how love lives courageously when life wants to run away. We did this by looking at examples of from the birth of Jesus. Especially the example of Mary. Love overcomes fear. How can we share the love of Christ to help others overcome this Advent? (Audio Only)
Joseph’s circumstances seemed bleak. His betrothal to Mary created the hope of a wonderful life with the one he loved, but it seems that only moments later, he received the worst news possible – she was pregnant, and not by him. His “yes” to a new life suddenly became a “no” to possibility. This first…