The Greatest Adventure // Part 7: God’s Law
The Perfect Authority When we think of rules, oftentimes we think of authority. There can be, at times, a negative light surrounding both rules and the ones enforcing the rules, due to past experiences and a myriad of other reasons. Simply stated: our relationship with rules and authority can be challenging. Our God, however, is…
Read MoreThe Greatest Adventure // Part 6: God Provides
Dare to Hope Life gets hard. Plain and simple. Things that we don’t expect to happen do. Tragedies and struggles hit when we are least expecting them. Uncertainty seems to be endless, and the questions we have never get answered. Yet, we still dare to hope. Why? Because our God is a God who provides…
Read MoreThe Greatest Adventure // Part 5: Freedom
The Ultimate Sacrifice Do you ever look at a circumstance in your life and wonder where God is? Whether you’re in that season now or if you can recall a situation like this in the past, there can be times that it’s difficult to understand what God may be doing. The Israelites likely felt this…
Read MoreThe Greatest Adventure // Part 4: The Passover
The Ultimate Sacrifice When you think about the sacrifice that Jesus made – really think about it – you can realize the magnitude of that act. The perfect, sinless Son of God lived a perfect life and chose to die for you and for me. And, even more than that, His death and sacrifice was prophesied…
Read MoreThe Greatest Adventure // Part 3: Miracles Happen
A God of Miracles When people think of miracles, sometimes they think of magicians or make-believe. It’s easier to have something that you can explain versus believing in something that has no logical explanation. We want to have a conclusion, a reasoning, and something to point to that makes it simple and rational. If we…
Read MoreThe Greatest Adventure // Part 2: God’s Call
God’s Call on your Life Each individual Christ-follower is being called to a specific task and purpose. Some people are called into the business world. Others are called into ministry. Some are led to teach the next generation. Whatever passions God has placed in your heart, whatever goals and dreams He’s given you, whatever aspirations…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 8: Confident in Christ
Lesser Gods What’s the idol in your life? Is there something that you put on a pedestal? Something that is so important that you couldn’t imagine living without it? Whether we realize it (or admit it) or not, we all have idols in our lives. We all have things, people, or ideas that we put…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 7: Full of Faith
Our Victory When we talk with older, wiser people who have lived through many different things, we have this inclination to want to lean in and listen to what they have to say. We want to listen to the lessons they’ve learned, the ways they’ve grown in their faith, and the stories of challenges they…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 6: Possess Discernment
Be on Guard, Christian Think back to a time when you got fooled by someone or something. Whether that’s a junk email that fools us into clicking, an advertisement that promotes something that isn’t all that it seems, or a person who tells us something that ends up being untrue, we sometimes need help determining…
Read MoreA Beautiful Life // Part 5: Filled with Love
The Distinguishing Mark of a Christ-Follower A Beautiful Life is one that is filled with love. It’s a life that overflows with the love of Christ that, consequently, pours into everything else that we do. In the book of 1 John, the apostle John uses the word love 42 times. That’s a whole lot of…
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