Filled With Messages

God invites us to be ready to leave at a moment’s notice on whatever adventure he has in store for us next.

There is so much in life which dries us out, so much that sun-bakes our souls. We are invited to work alongside God in watering others so we all can grow, flourish, and thrive.

Our tongues have the power of life and death. God asks us to use our words to bring life and healing. Listen in to hear more.

God is patient with us no matter what. Even when we struggle to trust, God still give us peace. Listen in to hear more.

Often we’re called to be a pattern, an example for others to follow. But what does that look like in everyday life? Listen in for some ideas.

Many days, it’s hard to have faith. On those days, Jesus’ faith (and the faith of our siblings in Christ) keep us deeply connected to God and the Holy Spirit’s grace, hope, peace, and love which enables us to boast joyfully, even on the worst days, about the Trinity’s goodness.

Lists are often good tools to help us reflect on our lives. One of the most famous lists in the Bible can also help us ponder our lives and our relationship with God.

Many of us take time to remember those who have passed on. For instance, we memorialize our fallen soldiers with wreaths on Memorial Day or perhaps we place flowers on the graves of loved ones on their birthdays. In the Bible we find several people raising stone moments to remember God’s faithfulness. Perhaps it might help us to trust God especially in the hard times of life if we did something si...

So often, life is confusing, disorienting, hard. Jesus didn’t promise that life would be easy, but he did provide ways to experience his peace even in the midst of the struggle.

Most of us struggle with change, but God is always doing a new thing and invites us to join him in blessing the world through making earth more like heaven.

It can be so easy to get stuck in survival mode, but God wants to help us move to a thriving, abundant, expansive life. Listen in to find out more.

Sometimes there are things which terrify us, but we also know need to be addressed. We can trust Jesus to safely lead us to and through those things and into a life of peace and joy.

Some days it feels like oppression and evil are winning. But God will not be silenced and invites us to join the cosmic concert singing messages of peace and God’s favor into the darkness of this world.

Grace is one of the defining characteristics of God and therefore it should be of us. But we struggle to offer abundant grace. Listen in to hear Jesus’ call to offer prodigal - abundant and overflowing - grace.

Tenderness isn’t something we experience a whole lot these days, yet it has the power to change the world. Listen in to a story from the last week of Jesus’ life which invites us to overflow with tenderness.

Humans are a mix of amazing, wonderful, admirable traits and stuff we’ve got to work on. In today’s scripture text, Jesus invites us to work on the stuff that needs to change so we can live more abundant lives.

All of us want to be loved, but sometimes we resist the love offered to us. Even when we resist Jesus’ love, he continues to brood over us with care and faithfulness.

Humans are literally made of stardust. But there are many days where we feel like regular old dust. On the good days and the bad, God and the Holy Spirit are with us, giving us the wisdom and strength we need.

Many of us have learned there are parts of ourselves which need to remain hidden from others, from ourselves, even perhaps from God. But God invites us to bring our whole selves to him because he loves us, all of us.

Many of us hesitate to try something new, but Jesus tried new things and invites us to do the same. And oftentimes when we try new things we experience more of the abundant life Jesus has for us.

Most of us have been taught to believe that our weaknesses should be hidden, covered up, kept out of sight because they make us vulnerable. But throughout scripture we often find God giving people strength through the things that make them feel small.

God is abundantly kind to each of us and invites us to learn to be the same.

We are often told that forgiveness is an imperative to the Christian life. But how we forgiveness is defined doesn’t often match up to what we see in scripture. Listen in to learn more about kind forgiveness.

One of Jesus’ most famous, and hardest, teachings helps us see us that kindness is a muscle which we need to learn to use with great discipline and intentionality.

Jesus often asks us to put other people’s needs before our wants. But that request doesn’t always sit well and sometimes even causes us to get pretty angry. Listen in to hear Jesus again calling us to care for those who are suffering.