The Big Dream Podcast by Meadow Heights Church

We all have a longing the culture says can only be met by another person. But the deepest longing of our hearts can only be met by God. Surrendering that longing to God allows us to live life in the fullness of community whether we’re single, dating or married. For links and more info, visit:https://www.meadowheights.com/hub

Because our world is full of death and dying, our hearts are well-acquainted with sorrow. But Jesus defeats death forever and brings rejoicing back to life. For links and more info, visit:https://www.meadowheights.com/hub

Every king we follow but one will fall short of our expectations. Jesus is the king we want and need to lead us to permanent peace and ultimate victory in his kingdom of love.

Most days we give our best efforts and energies to feeding our appetites for more. Because we never succeed, we wake up to do it all over again. But Jesus fully satisfies our soul’s deepest hunger and rescues us forever from the endless need to fill it ourselves.

In a broken world full of broken people, sometimes marriages break down. Grace is the only reason anyone can marry, whether for the first time or for another time.

Rather than trying to gain power over one another, Jesus calls us to use our power to more fully love each other. Marriage is a beautiful submission to one another out of reverence for Christ.

God uses biological families to bring us into the world but then Jesus brings us into new life in a new family. We are first and forever the much-loved children of a Good Father. For links and more info, visit:https://www.meadowheights.com/hub

Only using money to prepare for the future ends in a total loss. Money is a tool for doing something meaningful while you are here to use it. For links and more info, visit:https://www.meadowheights.com/hub

Our money’s direction reveals our affection. When we redirect our spending around God’s priorities, we train our heart to trust his goodness.

We live like it’s all about us when we forget that all we have and are has been given to us. But when we remember the giver and the gift, we get to open our hearts and hands so more good will grow.

Money is not the meaning of life. Money can be the means to doing something meaningful with my life.

We hope our lives will change for the better when God changes our circumstances. But God invites us to help create the change we want tomorrow by investing in something different today.

We haven’t yet met the person we’re becoming and don’t know what they’ll be like when we do. But what we practice today are the seeds of that new person’s living and legacy.

Many people spend their lives pining for the past, settling for status quo, or fantasizing about the future, but we know that God is making all things new. When we embrace his invitation to dream and plan alongside him, we bring the hope of his future kingdom into the reality of our lives today.

It’s possible to spend your entire life doing all the things you can do without doing what you must do. But when we discover what we must do and why we must do it, we can finally live the life we most want to live. For links and more info, visit:https://www.meadowheights.com/hub

Christmas illuminates the whole world with God’s love. But even that isn’t enough unless that love includes me. The good news of Christmas is that along with everyone else, I am a much-loved child of God.

Jesus comes to be with us in our present sacrifices and suffering. He illuminates our way with great joy today while we trust that he’s coming again to make everything right someday.

Hope is more and better than an escape plan. The hope we find in Jesus isn’t that we get to leave this earth and go to heaven, but that we get to participate in bringing heaven to earth.

Jesus came into a world marked by conflict to restore what is broken. Christmas illuminates the peace and wholeness God offers us and invites us to gift others that same peace.

There’s no such thing as a private relationship with God. We only become human again when we live up close and personal with friends who are committed to following Jesus in their flesh, too. The more of us who do, the more of us who will.

God doesn’t ask us to confront people with their sin or their need for him. Instead, we trust the Spirit of Jesus at work in us and let the Spirit convince others of God’s goodness as they encounter his love through us.

God doesn't need me to judge others, but he does want me to share the good news of Jesus with them. When grace oozes out of my life, people may want to hear the truth in my life.

Jesus came in the flesh to make his home among us. If our hearts are now his home, then our homes can be reflections of his heart. When we open the doors of our homes and our hearts, we invite others to come home to God’s love for them.