The disciples asked Jesus “teach us how to pray.” This is a question that all of us need to be asking. Jesus teach us how to pray! The first point in this Model of prayer that Jesus gave was the most crucial point in our lives but also our prayers. Jesus said “Our Father in…
One of the hardest things in relationships is closeness. It’s hard because the closer you are to someone the more chance you have of getting hurt. Because when you get hurt you must choose to do something equally hard endure. Endurance is hard because it means you must be willing to do the hard things…
Have you ever wondered if there’s a right way and wrong way to pray? What about even knowing how to pray? I mean I hear from people that I need to pray or that I need to have a prayer life but what does all of that mean? How can I truly know how to…
One of the hardest things in our life that we don’t like to face is boundaries. We don’t like to face them because when there’s boundaries then there’s discipline for crossing those boundaries. It’s the same thing in our walks with the Lord as well as critical for our understanding of Scripture. That God’s placed…
Hopelessness is something that has plagued humankind since the fall of mankind. The feeling like I’m not good enough, I’m not smart enough, feeling like I have no reason to go on. Even in the moments of celebration they are short lived because they don’t sustain us. So how can we really have hope with…
Have you ever found yourself wondering what’s next, how everything’s going to work out with so much unfairness, and so much anger and evil in the world? It’s this very question that Isaiah deals within the beginning of chapter 2 of Isaiah, and then goes on to show the what’s coming for Judah’s rebellion. Come…
Paul said to be strong in the Lord. This is a statement we hear all to often the question is what does this mean? I mean how can we be strong in the Lord in the first place. How as the Church do we stay strong with everything fighting us and coming after us? How…
There are many places in God’s word that speaks to the outright rebellion of Israel and the just judgement of God that follows! The question is what does that mean for us today? I mean after all we’re under grace so we don’t have to worry about God’s judgement. The thing is God’s just judgement…
As kids everyone us can understand what it’s like to desire to mimic someone. To be like someone that we admire. The question is that a good thing or a bad thing? The answer is simple. It depends; it depends on who you’re mimicking. If you’re mimicking an athlete, or a movie star, or a…
Isaiah next to Psalms the longest book in scripture packed full of so much. The question is what’s the Book of Isaiah all about? It’s about rebellion, promises, prophecy, Messiah coming and so much more. We are beginning a journey through the book of Isaiah come along with us as we dig deep through this…
One thing that Jesus made clear is that people will know that we are his disciples by the love that we have for one another. Followers of Christ were never meant to do things on their own. We are called to walk in unity with the spirit of God, and in that walk in unity…
Redemption is something so many of us seek, we seek redemption from failures, redemption from ways that we’ve harmed others, redemption from decisions that we’ve made. The question that many of us have what does it mean to be redeemed, and who’s able to redeem us? Throughout God’s word this is a statement and an…