Purity to See and Know the Lord – Jesus is calling believers to a life of holiness to keep their eyes and hearts sensitive to Him. He is prepared to do a renovating work in all who make themselves available to His process. Those who are holy will see the Lord and right relationship with…
Renewal in the Word – God’s discipline builds capacity to carry His glory and steward His power for greater impact. He uses His Word to cleanse us, prune us, and produce more fruit in our lives. Are we hungering for the Word of the Lord? Do we long for its impact upon us? Let’s cry…
Christmas Eve Service: Wrapped Up — A Christmas skit about love, acceptance, and identifying our identity in Christ. This service celebrates the gift of Jesus to humanity. He meets us in our brokenness, and introduces us to grace and truth. This service consists of a skit, special music, and a mini-sermon.
God’s Inheritance – God’s discipline builds capacity to carry His glory and steward His power for greater impact. We were chosen by Him before creation to be Holy and set apart solely and intimately for Him. Even as Christ is our inheritance, we are designed to be His special and glorious inheritance. This process of…
Desiring the Fire of God – Encounters with a HOLY God should make us long for His refining fire, not recoil from it, making us more fully willing and available to serve His Kingdom purposes around us. God is working holiness into His people as a father trains and prepares His children for adulthood. His…
The Day the Fire Returned – Sometimes we miss the goodness of God when we are too focused on our struggles, loss, and disappointment. When the human heart loses touch with the heart of God in struggle, it tends to pull away in sadness, anger, and avoidance. Jesus wants to introduce us to new depths…
Worthiness. Unworthiness. – Ever feel like your first response to God’s amazing presence is a sense of unworthiness? Some people will avoid church because the atmosphere, the people, the ministers, and the accuser are subconsciously mirroring back to them how shameful, unworthy, or undeserving they are and how unqualified they should feel. It is time…
Casting Burdens – A burden is something that is carried, something emotionally difficult to bear. The Lord invites us to cast our cares and burdens upon Him because He cares for us. Sometimes we see our struggles as punishments or misgivings from the Lord. But each burden is meant to be an invitation to allow…
More Than Enough — There are many funny little tensions that exists in the Kingdom. God is so big, and His ways are so much higher than ours, that it can be difficult to grasp the entirety of His heart in certain matters. One of these concepts of tensions falls between the two expressions “I…
Lead Me To The Rock — The Psalms demonstrate many times how our hearts can find peace, direction, and healing in God’s presence. It shows that God has designed a victory for those who wait on Him. He wants to make us unshakeable, meaning He wants to remove everything that isn’t of Him in our…
