Kids Experience October 25

Kids Experience October 25

Focus on what's GOOD.Everything changes when we put our focus on what’s GOOD in our lives. It makes everything better when we think about what God is doing—even when things are difficult and when we don’t understand. Let’s do this: Let’s focus on what’s...

When You Find and Follow Jesus

When You Find and Follow Jesus

Becoming a Christian and living as one are two different things. God refers to one as justification and the other as sanctification. We might also understand these two distinctions as finding Jesus and following Jesus. Blur this distinction between salvation and...

The Wait

The Wait

2020 has been the year of waiting. Many of us have had to pause our lives and rearrange our days to suit this strange time. We wait for normal to return and lives to resume. As months flip by, we wonder how much longer? At times, I’ve found myself wondering where God is in this wait.

The Feast of Salvation

The Feast of Salvation

Imagine you’re at a wedding reception. There is music, laughter, dancing, and a lot of food. You might have a cocktail hour with an appetizer course, the main course, and a dessert course. Each of these courses is part of the overall meal during the celebration. The...

Your Life with God

Your Life with God

Salvation is often viewed as a singular “event” or moment in our lives. By God’s grace, we receive salvation by believing in the death and resurrection of Jesus to save us. There is a sense in which this is absolutely true, from the moment of belief we are saved...

Kids Experience October 18

Kids Experience October 18

Be a person of integrity.We can always look at Jesus and find the very BEST example of integrity. Jesus proved that we can ALWAYS trust Him. Jesus did what He said He would do, and He showed us what it means to be trustworthy and truthful. When we choose to live that...

Reframing the Bad

Reframing the Bad

Have you ever thanked God for the bad things that have happened to you? I can picture your face, because I’m probably making the same one. Bad things are bad! They cause hurt, doubt, fear, confusion, and every sort of pain. If you’re like me, you spend your life trying to avoid bad things. But then one day, inevitably something bad happens.

The Spiritual Life

The Spiritual Life

We have been in the process of becoming who we are from the time we were born. Who we are today isn’t the person we were twenty years ago, or even twenty minutes ago. For better or worse, who we are, and who we are becoming, is constantly being shaped and transformed...

Kids Experience October 11th

Kids Experience October 11th

He will always forgive us.  We can be ourselves with God. We can ALWAYS go to Him, even we’ve done something wrong. We can know for SURE that He will always forgive us! We might still have to face the consequences of what we’ve done, but we know that we never have to...

Your Growth Toward Maturity

Your Growth Toward Maturity

You’re born into God’s family the moment you place your faith in Jesus for eternal life. You start as a spiritual baby. But it’s never God’s intention for you to remain a baby. You are to grow and thrive as a maturing believer in Jesus. But you never grow passively....

If The Bones Are Good

If The Bones Are Good

The Lord calls us to build a foundation that can withstand every slammed door, every lost job, every accusation, every diagnosis, every disappointment, every betrayal, every loss, every sadness, every death and every dashed dream.

Love Thy Neighbor

Love Thy Neighbor

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your should and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these."  Mark 12:30-31 OBSERVATION God instructs his people...

Some Assembly Required

Some Assembly Required

If you’ve ever purchased something from IKEA, chances are good you’re familiar with the term “some assembly required.” More like ALL assembly required. Yet people all over the world have embraced a little DIY if it means having a bit of trendy furniture at a fraction...

Kids Experience October 4th

Kids Experience October 4th

Trust God no matter what.Daniel and his friends knew what was most important. They knew they could trust God no matter what. They had the integrity to stay truthful to what they knew God wanted them to do—even though they were in a land that wasn’t their...

Your Old and New Natures

Your Old and New Natures

Have you ever felt unprepared? You’ve probably had a time in your life when you were not prepared at all for what was about to happen. As our flesh constantly fights to lead us further away from God, it’s easy for us to feel unprepared for life. But God prepares us by...

If It Seems Slow, Wait For It

If It Seems Slow, Wait For It

God’s answers to a lot of my “Why” questions often seem slow, but that doesn’t mean He doesn’t have a purpose for my struggles in the waiting. Even if we never get an answer for our “Why” questions during this unexpected year, God is still moving and using this time in our lives to teach us and grow us.

Help Along the Way

Help Along the Way

Many of Jesus’ teachings are difficult to practice. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy. These teachings and more outline what abundant living looks like here on earth for every believer in Jesus. But there’s a problem: these teachings are often...

The Holy Spirit in Your Life

The Holy Spirit in Your Life

In the Bible, we read Jesus promising to send the Holy Spirit to his disciples after He is gone. As believers in Jesus, the Holy Spirit is also with us, living inside of us, just as Jesus promised. The question is, why did Jesus send the Holy Spirit to be with us?...

Kids Experience September 27

Kids Experience September 27

God forgives our sins.Jesus gave us the perfect example of forgiveness when He died on the cross for our sins. He paid the price for the things we’ve done wrong. Because He did that for us, we can ask God to forgive our sins. We can be forgiven because of Jesus!...

In Him

In Him

Do you feel the pull? You are trying to stay rooted, yet your arms and legs are stretched in different directions. It’s exhausting. If you are like me, you want to let the responsibilities, the pressure, and the weight fall. But what do you do when you can’t?

Iron Sharpens Iron

Iron Sharpens Iron

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17 OBSERVATION The writer isn't specifically talking about iron, or metal. The writer is saying that when two strong things work together, they become stronger. That's what believers are supposed to...

Living Hope

Living Hope

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 1 Peter 1:3 (NIV) OBSERVATION I don’t know about you but sometimes I have gotten so used...