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A Vital Conversation About Death

Jesus did not give us empty promises, but freedom. Demonstrated the power of truth. Take away the sting of death. He is for us, the one who infuses his very existence into us and gives us a reason to live and to live with the presence of God in the goodness of love and the freedom to serve.

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Making Easter a Home Where We Live

You can begin today. Jesus is ready and waiting. How can your walk with him be even stronger and deeper? What next step can you take? Ask him today, and follow him tomorrow.

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The King on a Donkey

Every person needs help, home, and hope. Jesus offers you all three. No matter who you have been in this story. God rode a donkey on Palm Sunday to prove it.

And now Jesus asks me to love him enough to be his donkey. To carry him to the fickle, prideful, cowardly people who need him. To tell his story, and share his love in mine. The donkey doesn’t matter—only the One it bears.

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A Vital Conversation About God’s Grace

Grace is the root, the good works, the changed life, is the fruit. We can’t earn it, or deserve it, but we can live out of it and begin to see, by the grace of God, our lives changed.

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A Vital Conversation About Life’s Longings

Salvation is not in going to the right mountain, it is about going to the right person, Jesus Christ, whose arms are wide open to whosoever believes.

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A Vital Conversation About Eternal Life

“Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” John 3:3

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A Call to Simple Loyalty

Jesus never called us to niceness, he called us to a radical love, that loves the person that is different than we are, not just to be nice to people. He taught us to have a radical love that looks like the cross and to follow him wholeheartedly.

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A Call to Simple Love

God desires to gather a people of all nations who love him wholeheartedly and teach others to love unselfishly. This is the will of God for His church, this is what eternity will look like.

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Let the Fire be Your Guide

Sometimes life can be a wilderness and it requires the direction and leadership of God.

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Joyfully Engaging the Mission of God

Only the church is given the task to declare God. We must protect the identity of the church and this can be a full time job.

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Following the Living God

When we create our own God, we rob him of his uniqueness. God’s uniqueness is that He is holy.

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Finding God in Unexpected Places

The wilderness experience is us when we go through a period of diagnosis and recovery, when life appears to have no balance, it is an uncomfortable place and it is a time when we ask soul-searching questions.

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Helpful Questions for Today and Tomorrow

During the wilderness experience it is important for us to remember who we are and who we are following.

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Keeping a Steady Flame

We can’t answer for all Christians or all Evangelicals, but we can answer for ourselves. We can keep a steady flame by staying connected to God and one another. We can choose the politics of Jesus over worldly power. And we can embrace the truth wherever we find it and whatever it costs us.

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The Word of Christmas: Redemption

Our redemption comes from God’s only begotten Son who comes to our lives through personal invitation and promises to be with us eternally. Hallelujah, we are redeemed!

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The Five Words of Christmas: Joy

Joy wells up from the deepest parts of who we are, whereas happy works its way in from the outside, based on our outward circumstances.

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The Five Words of Christmas: Guidance

God sent Joseph the direction he needed when he needed it, not before. He’ll do the same for me and for you.

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The Five Words of Christmas: Blessed

Why did God send Jesus? To bless you! Jesus spoke and extraordinary blessing over you in John 17 (His “High Priestly Prayer”). Your happiness matters to your heavenly Father. Blessed and happy indeed are they who believe.

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The Five Words of Christmas: Favor

The more we experience God’s transforming love, the more we will be empowered and motivated to share it with every person we can. And the more we will love them as we are loved.

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Making God’s Deeds Known

Let us praise the Lord for all He has done for us today. To call upon His name as we remember how He has loved us and taken care of us through the good times, the bad times, and the confusing time.

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