Adventurous Living - The Meadow Springs Community Church Podcast

Have you noticed something missing? What we think we want is not what we get and what we get is not what we think we want. The 'something missing' is emptiness - being separated from God - because we walk away, shoulders slumped, having been disappointed by the things of this world. We've got to let go.

Jesus lived among the people. He preached, performed miracles and His presence was noteworthy... but why keep it a secret? Mark  announces the 'beginning of the good news', the Gospel, but its not really good news until the cross. 

Since the first century AD, we've been on the edge of the end… the edge of the return of Christ. Come, Lord Jesus.

The presence of Jesus is not just Emmanuel at Christmas time. Wherever we are - here, there or anywhere - the Holy Spirit is with us. That place becomes the Holy Land and where we stand is holy ground. 

When you wake up on Christmas morning, may you experience the full presence of Jesus our Savior, and know that God is WITH you. He has been there all along.

Emmanuel isn't a vague feeling of "god with me" but rather the reality of "the King with me". He has come to give us salvation - a hope and a purpose. Emmanuel, invade our little world so we may shout "Glory to God in the Highest" .

Despite the enemies raging around us - despite this present darkness, trust Him because the child is coming!

Think about the difference between the words expensive and precious. Which of those is the most valuable?

Living for Jesus and pointing people toward Him means He is it. He's the One on whom our gaze should rest. It's not 'political agreement' and Jesus, 'right-living' and Jesus or even 'I got this on my own' and Jesus. It's just Jesus. 

God Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn. There is no other. God cannot give us a happiness and a peace apart from Himself. There is no such thing.

The world and the Word is charged with the grandeur of God ... the glory of Jesus. Do we have eyes to see and ears to hear so that we may know Him?

Four thousand years ago, God chose Abraham and made him special so that he could bring blessing to all the people of the world. Today, we carry on that mission: all people... all the world.

We so easily see our own heart, our motives and desires, as something far different from what God sees. 

We do not have the resources to solve life's problems... we bring what we have to Jesus and let Him go to work.

There is an urgency in declaring the kingdom of God. We shouldn't act like we have all the time in the world because we don't.

It is never just us you and the earthquake or just me and the waves; there is always Jesus. The more we know Him the more we cry out, "Who is this that even the wind and waves obey him?"

The Bible isn't a riddle, it's a revelation; it is not given to confuse, but rather to enlighten.

Those who do the will of God... that's our family.

Faith is a process. Even Jesus' disciples struggles to get to the point where they followed Him to Jerusalem. Our own faith is a process and God is patient as we struggle and grow and learn to follow Him.

The most effective testimony of Jesus is the unity of the Church. Let us truly love our neighbor by living out the unity Jesus died to create and live with and love our neighbors as ones who are lost and loved by Christ.

Psalm 23... the greatest expression of trust in all of the Old Testament. Reclaim this 'oldy but goody' during our current season of life.

The least, the last and the lost... ALL made in God's image. Are you willing to invite your neighbor, who is different from you, into your tribe?

What might it do for you and for your neighbor if you scaled the fence between you and hopped over to the other side?

When we are hopeful, we can move forward.

A heart that is broken open and filled with the love that only comes from Jesus is a beautiful thing.