Dec 6, 2017
You can never choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond to it. We are not promised a life of happiness when we follow Christ; in fact we are told that there will be trials and tribulations. It’s easy to gripe and complain when things get tough. God calls us to respond with something else. God...
Dec 6, 2017
Sometimes we have a hard time putting aside time to pray. When we do find the time, our prayers tend to look like this: please God give me this… or God please help me with this. What would it look like to put everything aside and just say, “Hey God, thanks. Thanks for everything.” Let’s enter a season...
Dec 6, 2017
As Andy from the movie Shawshank Redemption famously said, “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” As we wind down the season of Pentecost and transition into the season of Advent, we enter into an atmosphere of hope. Hope is one of those things that can start as a tiny...
Dec 6, 2017
It’s incredibly important to remember why we do what we do. It’s easy to get lost in religiosity and churchology and lose the heart behind it. God calls us to be steadfast in His good work. When you labor for the Lord, it is never ever in vain.