Missio Dei Community Church

FREEDOM. The greatest freedom any human can experience is the release from inner guilt, shame, and condemnation. While we all search for ways to free ourselves, only God can truly liberate. Even our relationships with others can't release us from spiritual bondage and can often lead to further captivity. Whether it's someone else's voice or our own inner voice, we frequently get buried in constant...

SUFFERING. It's all around us. We've all experienced pain in our lives. We wrestle trying to understand why horrible things happen to us and those around us. Why does suffering exist in our world? Is there a purpose to suffering that we haven't recognized? How can we navigate the painful circumstances that have to happen to us and discover healing and wholeness that may be a part of those experien...

RESPONSE. The quality of our lives is based not so much on WHAT happens to us but HOW we respond to what happens to us. 2020 held some valuable lessons for us, but many missed out on those lessons because of wrong responses to various circumstances. 2021 will hold many more opportunities to learn, grow, mature, and flourish. How will this new year be different for us? How can we learn to recognize...

FUTURE. As we prepare to exit 2020 and enter 2021, there is still so much that is uncertain in our lives. That uncertainty brings us fear and anxiety. But not everything future is uncertain and unknown. There ARE events that are GUARANTEED to happen and the question becomes: Are you ready? What are these future events? How can we prepare ourselves for the future? How does personal readiness for th...

GOALS.   People love setting goals for themselves for the new year. Many of you already have some goals in mind for 2020. Some of you haven't even started thinking about next year and any resolutions yet. Wherever you may be with considering 2020, let me encourage you with some things to think about. There are no greater goals than SPIRITUAL goals for your life. If we don't stop and cult...

JOY.   This is not happiness. Happiness is superficial and fleeting. Happiness comes and goes as often as our highs and lows in life. But joy is deeper. Joy is rooted in realities far greater than past, present, or future circumstances.   The fact that we're created to experience joy points to the experience of joy is found in the Joy-Giver. Christmas is about this reality. God...

GRACE.   If Christmas can be summed up in one word, it's grace. It is truly amazing to consider. Not only does God draw near to humanity that doesn't want Him, but He loves us all without condition. And then we learn that the gift is not just in the RECEIVING of life from Him but also in the REFLECTING of this life of grace to all. We exist in a world that is desperate for grace to show...