Tag: VISION
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Go With God, Even When It’s Hard (Open House)
Scriptures:Hebrews 11:1–16; John 15:15; Romans 8:14–17 Go With God, Even When It’s Hard There are moments in every life of faith when the ground beneath you feels uncertain—when prayers feel thin, direction feels distant, and you find yourself asking, “What do I hold onto right now?” These are not signs that faith is failing; they…
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Foxes and our Future (Open House)
Scriptures:Song of Solomon 2:15; John 15:1–5 Foxes and our Future There is something sacred about beginnings—but there is something equally dangerous about settling. At the start of the year, we live wide awake. Intentional. Watchful. Hungry for change. We pay attention to what we eat, how we spend, how we speak, and who we are…
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Find Freedom
Scriptures: Ephesians 1:15–20; John 1:4–5; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Matthew 6:22–23 Find Freedom There is a kind of freedom that doesn’t wait for your circumstances to change. It doesn’t ask permission from your past, and it isn’t threatened by your present. It is the freedom that comes when light enters places that have lived…
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Know God
Scriptures: Ephesians 1:15–19; John 14:8–9 Know God There is a quiet ache in the human heart that no achievement can soothe and no relationship can fully satisfy. It is the ache to be known, to be held, to belong without striving. In a world loud with information and thin on intimacy, the invitation of the gospel…
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The Return
The Return Resurrection Sunday is not just a celebration of an empty tomb—it is an invitation into a living, breathing relationship with a risen Savior who still walks the road with us. In Luke 24, we meet two disciples on a dusty road to Emmaus. They are not rebels. They are not unbelievers. They are…
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The Great Exchange
Scriptures: Romans 5:8–10; John 19:30; Mark 15:1–15; Hebrews 12:2; John 15:15 The Great Exchange Good Friday invites us into a paradox: a day marked by suffering that echoes with the sound of victory. At the center of this sacred moment are three words spoken by Jesus that still reverberate through history and into our lives today: “It…
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The Arrival of an Unexpected King
Scriptures:Mark 11:1–10; Zechariah 9:9; Romans 10:9; Philippians 2:6–8 The Arrival of an Unexpected King There is something deeply disruptive about the way Jesus arrives. On Palm Sunday—what Scripture calls the Triumphant Entry—we are confronted with a King who refuses to meet our expectations, yet somehow meets our deepest needs. The streets of Jerusalem were filled…
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The Mission Must Go On
Scriptures:Mark 8:27–35; 1 Corinthians 1:18; Galatians 2:20; Romans 12:2; Romans 5:8 The Mission Must Go On There are moments in life when the map we’ve trusted no longer makes sense. The roads we thought would lead somewhere feel uncertain. The landmarks we leaned on seem to disappear. In those moments, faith does not offer us…
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Remember the Oil (Open House)
Scriptures:1 Samuel 16:13; 1 Samuel 10; Revelation 16:1; Isaiah 61; John 1:16; Romans 12:2; Psalm 45:7 Remember the Oil There are always two ways to live. Two ways to lead. Two ways to love. Two ways to respond when life presses in and the stakes feel high. Scripture paints this contrast vividly through two kings:…
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Reaching For Overflow
Scriptures: Luke 8:40–48; Mark 5:25–34; Leviticus 15:25–30; Romans 12:2 Reaching for Overflow There are moments in life when survival is no longer enough. Moments when the quiet ache inside us whispers, something must change. In those seasons, we often find ourselves reaching—reaching for solutions, for hope, for anything that promises relief. Scripture tells us the story of…
