We’ve looked at what our relationship status with God should not be defined by. It’s time now to dig into what it should be defined by. What does “Life With God” actually look like? What does this idea mean? While it’s a life-long pursuit, today we look at how to take some steps toward truly […]
How can living “life for God” be a bad thing? It sounds good, even godly to say something like this. However, when “doing” for God becomes the foundation of our relationship, we’ve started down a challenging slope. Join us this week as we look at the older son in the parable son story and see […]
As we come into the Christmas season, it is easy for our minds to gravitate toward what we hope to receive this Christmas season. It’s an evitable pit fall of a season focused on giving… someone has to receive those gifts and, well, why can’t it be me? But what happens when our relationship with […]
Apples always fall down. That’s the lesson Isaac Newton taught us that led to Enlightenment thinking. While we don’t normally think about the Enlightenment and our relational status with God having much to do with each other, the truth is that this new perspective on thinking can drastically change how we relate to God.
How would you define your relationship with your spouse? Your best friend? Your parents? What about God – how would you define your relationship with Him? For many of us, we would like to say our relationship with God is “good” but what does that even mean? Today, we begin a new series exploring God’s original […]
Today in our final walk into the desert… and we find ourselves walking OUT of the desert. Saul (Paul)’s dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus caused him to flee into a desert of sorts to seek God. But what we often miss as we read through the story in Acts is what happened next. […]
Tim Diehl from Water Street Mission joins us with the challenging question of “who is my neighbor?” While most people are familiar with Jesus story about the Good Samaritan, Tim helps us to see the story from a different perspective and encourages us to think a little deeper about what it means to be a […]
Who doesn’t love an invitation to go away? Maybe a trip to the beach… the mountains… some exotic island? When a close friend or a spouse invites you to go away with them, you feel special and wanted! So how do we respond when God invites us to go away with Him? The problem is […]
Moses spent a lot of his life in the desert. We typically think about the 40 years he spent leading the Israelites through the desert to the Promise Land yet that was actually his send tenure there. Before Moses became the Moses we know and love, God needed him to spend some time being shaped […]
It’s amazing how some times you can be going, going, going and feeling fine the whole time and then suddenly you hit a wall and you just can’t go anymore. It can come out of nowhere yet you’ve run out and are just sitting on “E.” As we turn our attention to Elijah again this […]