Sunday, June 1, 2025
Good morning Church
When we surrendered our life to Jesus, He never intended to just patch us up and send us back out into the world - back into our old life.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” - 2 Corinthians 5:17
The plan was not for us to continue living life as we always did.
When a caterpillar breaks out of its cocoon and turns into a beautiful butterfly, with the capacity to fly above the landscape, it never returns to its cocoon, nor does it ever go back to crawling on its belly. It is a new creation, with new purpose, and well equipped to fulfill it.
Likewise, with Christ living on the inside of us, we are a new creation, and He has well-equipped us to fulfill His purpose.
“Our faith was never meant to fit into our lifestyle, it was meant to shape it.”
See you at church!
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Good morning Church
There are some impressive bridges that are among the most significant architectural structures in the world. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They are built from an array of different materials. There are suspension bridges, arch bridges, cable-stayed bridges, beam bridges, and the list goes on.
Although they are constructed differently and from different materials, they all have one thing in common…..to bridge a gap, to join one place to another.
The greatest chasm that has ever needed to be bridged in the history of humanity is the one that sin created between man and God. And there was only One who could ever make a way across that great divide. Jesus is our perfect bridge that has taken us from darkness to light, from captivity to freedom, from death to life; and neither storm nor disaster can ever breach its stability.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39
That is something to celebrate this morning! See you at church!
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Good morning Church
Hebrews 13:15 tells us to “…continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.”
A sacrifice is not really a sacrifice unless there is some sort of cost or surrendering of something.
When David wanted to give a sacrifice to God, and Araunah offered to freely give him everything he needed to do so, David’s response was, "No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing." (2 Sam 24:24)
So what does a “sacrifice” of praise look like? Our Kingdom Dynamics tells us, “Praise often requires that we “kill” our pride, fear, or sloth—anything that threatens to diminish or interfere with our worship of the Lord.”
It may cost us our comfort…..getting out of our comfort zone…doing something a little crazy like moving our feet.
It may cost us our pride….dancing before the Lord and not caring what others may think about our dance moves.
Maybe we surrender our fear….willingly accepting some persecution for giving thanks to His Name.
Jesus’ sacrifice to purchase our freedom cost Him EVERYTHING! He asks far less from us…but a sacrifice nonetheless.
See you at church!