Living an Intentional Life // Part 3: Intercede
Defining Some Important Words The words intercede, apologetics, and evangelism might not come up in your everyday conversations. You might even feel a little overwhelmed when you hear them. But these aren’t things that should be left to pastors and theology professors alone! In fact, you’ve probably engaged in these things this week! So, let’s…
Read MoreLiving an Intentional Life // Part 2: Invest
Be Prepared to Give an Answer But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your…
Read MoreLiving an Intentional Life // Part 1: Identify
What is an intentional Life? Every day we’re given from our God is a gift. He wants us to enjoy this gift, but that’s not the main reason He’s given it. There’s a reason that God does not take us into heaven the moment we’re saved! Even though living in heaven and in the presence…
Read MoreCelebrating God’s Goodness // Part 5: Stories of Thanksgiving
Telling our Stories of Thanksgiving Do you remember when you were a kid, and almost every story that you heard would amaze you? You’d listen in while your dad, your grandparent, or your older sibling read from a book or told you this amazing story of heroes, incredible events, and mysterious situations. Those stories left…
Read MoreCelebrating God’s Goodness // Part 4: God’s Goodness Continues
What can you celebrate today? Our lives tell our stories. How we live, what we do and say, the things that we prioritize – all of those different elements point to what is important to us. As we heard this past Sunday, what we celebrate represents what we value. What do you value? What is…
Read MoreCelebrating God’s Goodness // Part 3: God’s Goodness in His Church
An Encouragement for You Hear this today, church: God is doing something in YOU. No matter what life may have brought you today, this week, or this year, God is moving in your life, and He is not done with you. It’s easy to become discouraged when life is difficult. Even Scripture lets us know…
Read MoreCelebrating God’s Goodness // Part 2: Starts in Our Heart
God’s Goodness in Others Have you known someone walking through an extremely difficult situation – a terminal illness, the loss of a loved one, a devastating disaster – yet is incredibly, even miraculously, thankful? Uncertainty and suffering has the power to deeply affect us and potentially propel us into a dark place. With Christ, however,…
Read MoreCelebrating God’s Goodness // Part 1: God’s Goodness in Others
God’s Goodness in Others There is a time for everything, as God’s Word says. There are times to mourn, to learn, to rest, to laugh, to grieve. In this past season, it may have felt like there were more times for harder things than there were times for celebration. We, as a community, as a…
Read MoreEyes on Jesus // Part 4: Living with God’s Peace
Do you want to start living with Peace? "Man, life would be a lot better if I didn’t have to deal with ________." Fill in the blank with what comes to mind. Work? Marital struggles? A physical illness? A difficult family relationship? We all probably had something specific come to mind when we started thinking…
Read MoreEyes on Jesus // Part 3: How to Deal with Stress
Stress in Today’s World Stress. Just the word alone can make that anxious feeling start rising up inside of us. We all know what stress feels like and likely have countless examples of very stress-inducing situations in our own personal lives – many of which may have even occurred over this last year and a…
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