MVT: Rewind

Who we become informs what we do and what we do informs who we become. As we do our best to move closer to Jesus and people, we want to become people marked by grace and love through our actions. We want to be a community of people who advocate for God's grace every chance we get. We want to love our neighbors with everything we've got, remembering everything we do can be an act of worsh...

HERE, we live out faith together. We are the church here when we celebrate together, when we contribute to make MVT what it is, and when we live radically generous lives. This is where we learn from one another as we participate in the lifelong process of sanctification. Here is where we point one another to the cross and and to grace, where we grow as disciples, and where we become known. 

Jesus is inviting us into uncomfortability; not in a way that is forceful or harsh, but to stretch us so we can continue to move closer to him. He has not asked us to do anything he hasn’t already done. God is asking for our best and is asking for our first fruits because he gave us his best in Jesus life, death, and resurrection so we do not have to worry about our relationship with God. Jesus ge...

The way we feel about ourselves often reveals our ability to believe in God's perfect love for us. It can feel natural to listen to voices of fear and shame instead of the voice of Jesus. Sometimes, that makes us hold back from talking to him at all; we're too afraid of how we'll be met. In prayer, we're able to both speak to God and hear from him. It's a two-way conversat...

We can see suffering around us, every day, everywhere we look. In the midst of this suffering, it’s tempting to thing some wrong things about God. Maybe we think He caused it. It’s possible we think He doesn’t care about it. Or maybe we think He’s sitting on the throne, with head in hands, feeling just as overwhelmed as we are. The good news is that none of those things are true. God is bigger tha...

We can talk all day long about why bad things happen to good people, but ultimately the best answers do very little to comfort us when we're hurting. Horrible things happen across the world and in the midst of that, all we can do is grieve. But we never grieve alone. Christ himself suffers with us in our sorrow, reminding us that God is closer than we think. Even when it feels like God is a m...

Would you feel comfortable knowing that someone loved you if you didn’t know anything about that person? That might make you feel weird, or insecure. In this series, we are hoping to grow together in what we know about God, in order to anchor ourselves to His perfect love for us.  The Hebrew word for this week was shalom, which describes the peace of God. Maybe you’ve heard it used as a greeting,...