What is the value of a person? What is your value? It isn’t a number on a screen. Your value is not defined by your failures or successes. Your value is determined by Jesus. He is the only one who truly defines you. Neither your opinion nor that of others has any bearing on who you are or what you are worth.…

When you discover things in the Bible that give you doubts, that just means it’s time to dig. Jesus deals firmly with the matter of forgiveness in Matthew 18. If we wear a lens of God that is punitive in nature, we will miss the entire point of Jesus' parable.

Peter asks Jesus about what kind of reward he will receive for leaving everything behind to follow Him. So, Jesus jumps into a story about a Landowner so generous and fair that his workers became resentful. Jesus summarizes His message in the challenging statement “the first will become last and the last become first,” calling us to live into the Kingdom of God’s radical rejection of status.…

Our anxiety, drama, and control issues are rooted in unbelief. Our Father God is truly good, and Jesus is the absolute best standard to evaluate our lives and faith. Jesus is the best and only argument against unbelief. He is your solution. He is real life.

What is the Father worth to you? What are you worth to Him? Make sure your opinion of Him and of yourself is formed by His relationship and history with you. Don’t allow the opinions of others or the assault of your enemy to shape those opinions. You can trust Him.

There is a point. You have a purpose. There is wonderful hope for tomorrow and the future. You were built for eternal life that begins right now. This is why we long for more, are often disappointed, give up, and then try again. There is good news. Great news. Today God wants a conversation with us about the hopelessness we often feel.…

Once Jesus was invited to a nice diner with some Pharisees. He proceeded to heal a man, reprimand the guests, and critique the host, only to tell a story lampooning their view of God's Kingdom. Through His story, we, along with the Pharisees, are challenged to ask if our vision of the Kingdom has enough room for everyone God invited to the party.…

When we started this journey 17 years ago, we just wanted to help people follow Jesus without all the distractions of denominationalism, judgement, guilt, shame, and fear. We wanted people to be able to have a conversation and take the journey with Jesus.

|Through the love poetry of Song of Songs, seen through the lens of Jesus’ love for His Bride the Church, the heart of God for us becomes revealed. Jesus is desperate to spend time with the one He loves so dearly. He is calling us to come away with Him and spend some face to face time. One helpful response to this call is contemplative prayer, helpfully explained by John Mark Comer as “looking at God, looking at you, in love.”…

There is a supernatural nuclear weapon that will change natural realities. There is a way, a tool, and a strength that reveals the enemy coming at you, paralyses the forces trying to destroy us, and conquers every difficulty. When your faith grows from private and personal, to shared and community, your prayers will terrify the darkness.…

Prayer was critical to the advance of the church in the book of Acts. Through the history of Christianity, prayer has been the foundation of every move of God. Prayer was not necessarily a pleading with God to move, but rather an increasing dependence upon and enjoyment of God. Take a moment to consider what the early Christians did in and with prayer.…

Jesus' prayer life challenges us, but it is meant to inspire us. We often feel alone or isolated. Jesus never allowed that “aloneness” to persist. He preferred prayer and enjoyment of His Father. (Your Father)

Jesus' most “violent” outburst is often used to justify all kinds of things He never did. While seldom producing the one thing It was meant to do. He clearly defined and confirmed the commision upon the House of the Father as a house of prayer. We should take caution when we use Jesus' actions in the temple as justification for things that are not prayer and not immersed in prayer. Prayer is priority in this house and in your house as the Temple of God.…

God is excited about this year. He has good things planned for you. Can you believe that? Well, Jesus said it. Jesus began His earthly ministry with a mission statement. He says that this year He is going to proclaim the good news to the poor, proclaim freedom to the oppressed, proclaim sight for the blind, and finally to proclaim this year as the year of God’s favor. This short passage is a comfort and a commission for us as Christ followers in this and every year.…

Jesus carried the Father’s heart. In doing so, he established a family of people around Him. A distinct group of people who SHINED long after He was gone. God’s family was always meant to shine in a dark world!