Yet, Jesus is selfless in the way He gives His life away for you. So if your gaze is on Him, you will treat others as He is treating you.
Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious." But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.
Advent allows us to recover during this four-week journey. It begins four Sundays before Christmas all the way up to Christmas. It lets us breath in those moments of faithfulness and helps us recognize that God is working.
Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!
The Word of God isn't for one particular season. It's for every season. But in its specific application, it's best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.
Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.
Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It's because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren't DEAD!
Sin doesn't make you bad, it makes you dead
When we are foolish God intervenes.
God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.
Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus - to that degree I can channel God's life to others.
There's something that's not right or not perfect or not the way we had hoped or dreamed that it was going to be. But God promises that He will use everything and every moment to ultimately take us to a new Heaven and a new Earth. For now, we're stuck in the middle.
I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.
God is faithful. God is faithful. 400 years might go by, but never count God out.
I'm dead in the water if I can't see the all sufficient glory of God.
God always gets the glory when Jesus comes.
While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.
It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.
Crazy is good. The alternative is normal.
It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.
Hear Jesus as a family and serve Him. Care about people and love people.
The good thing about life is that you can research anywhere you are. I'm just constantly gathering little bits of information all the time. I'm always grabbing something out of the headlines, out of the news or reading a book about astronomy and just trying to figure out how to get my head around the facts but the bigger stress is trying to connect those facts to normal life situations and our relationship with God.
If you've been served by God, you've arrived.
As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.
The bound are going to go free because Jesus is in this Dome.
