We think, “If only I had enough money, my life would change forever,” yet even a life-altering jackpot can’t easily eliminate the old self. Romans 6:10 tells us the death Christ died, He died to sin once for all, but the life He lives, He lives to God.
On Easter, we celebrate God’s great reversal, yet many of us still carry wildernesses where things feel anything but right. Mary Magdalene was in such a wilderness in John 20 as she wept outside of the tomb. In the wilderness, we often cannot see when Jesus is right in front of us.
Pastor Tim begins our new series, “Follow Me.” God calls us to follow Him. The best part? As we follow him, we learn more about the one whom we follow.
What does it mean when God calls us to “knowledge” as a way to bolster our faith? What is God’s knowledge like? That’s the subject of this week’s Steadfast.
Pastor Tim thinks about how God tells us to show care for others in a different way than our natural impulse — and why that matters.
It’s easy to hunker down when life gets complicated. We’ll just manage what’s in front of us and quietly wonder whether God’s bigger plan still has a place for us in it. Genesis 24 takes us to the story of a family facing down that same question.
We’ve grown so busy we’ve forgotten why we gather, and our culture whispers that rest is laziness—but Exodus 20:8 calls us to remember the Sabbath as a gift, not a rule, a weekly sign that we belong to the God who rescues us and knows what we actually need.
How does the sort of leader we imagine stack up to what God values? How do we find our blind spots? Join Pastor Tim tonight for the second part of our series exploring these questions through the life of King Saul.
What do the Olympics have to do with the life God has called us to? Let’s race to the answer tonight as we turn to the Letter to the Hebrews for 52 Verses from 52 Books in 52 Weeks!
Failure and forgiveness. It’s in the center of Solomon’s temple prayer and it is in the center of our actions and God’s response to them.