Monday Morning Motivations

During this time of self-distancing, I have seen people struggle with mini-storms inside of the larger storm. Sometimes these mini-storms are a direct result of the larger storm, like depression from the loss of a job and the ability to provide for one's family or anxiety about the health of ourselves or a family member.  Other times, those mini-storms are things that have always existed, but...

In order to make sense of this season, we often find ourselves trying to understand God. Trying to piece together, as best we can, a reason for it all.  And if you aren’t, you’ve probably heard other people inject their “God reason” into the situation... using words like "judgement" or "end times" or a number of other rationalizations that help them cope with the stressful seas...

I will walk in freedom BECAUSE I have sought out your rules. Usually when we think about freedom, the LAST thing that comes to our mind is the word “rules”. As a matter of fact, rules and restrictions are seen as the exact opposite of freedom. When we think of freedom, we think of a space without rules or the ability to do whatever we please without consequence. So why does David seem to beg to di...

In Acts 13:22 God refers to David as, “a man after my own heart…”  The same David that slept with another man’s wife, got her pregnant, then killed her husband to cover up his mess. How could God consider this man someone after His own heart? In today's episode we dive into how David reflected the heart of God even as his life was being sought after for death. How did David remain calm in the...

When we think of blocked paths, the first thing that probably comes to mind is frustration from not getting what we want. We handle these feelings and circumstances differently depending on how badly we want what’s being blocked. But what about those situations where it was God who placed the blocker there? In today's episode we look at one of the reasons why God may block our path, and how w...

In John 10:27, Jesus describes His followers as sheep by saying “My sheep know my voice…”  With this verse many Christians get discouraged because they feel like they don’t hear God speak. Many would even go as far as to say that God does not speak to them at all.  But often it’s not that He doesn’t speak, it’s just that we aren’t trained to listen. In today's episode we revisit the Prophet E...

What if our war was with God? What if the enemy we fight so desperately against was not the Devil, but God Himself?  So many times we blame the devil for our downfalls and temptations, but what if it was our own hearts that took us away and caused us to sin? In today's episode we look at the war we often find ourselves in with sin, and look at who we are really fighting against. Are we fighti...

"How is it that you have NO faith"  Wait Jesus... but it was a storm... a big storm.  And our boat is so small.  Isn't it normal to be a little concerned about our lives? Today we dive into the situation where an unbearable storm meets an unchanging God, and we find out  if we believe more in the storm or in the words of the God who created the storm.

What if your blessing lied in your obedience? What if God has already laid the path and was just waiting on you to step on it? Would you move... Or would you resign yourself to death? Today we dive in what obedience looks like from a widow's perspective and what happened in Kings that would hinder her obedience and make her consider choosing death over obedience.

Restoration. A return of something to a former, original, normal, or unimpaired condition. When we think of being restored, we think of something that we lost being re-established. Today we dive in what restoration looks like from God's perspective and what happened in Joel to bring about the need for restoration in the first pace.