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A message from the series "Wisdom." Looking back, 2020 challenged us to look up, reflect, listen, reach out, ask for help, count our blessings, and give thanks. What did God teach you as you navigated various degrees of isolation? What truths came to life as you meditated on His word? While we’re not out of the woods yet, let’s move forward asking God to give us wisdom for the days ahead. Are you desperate for wisdom? God’s word tells us to acquire wisdom. “Wisdom is supreme; therefore, get wisdom. Though it cost you all you have, get understanding.” So, let’s go for it in 2021.
A message from the series "Christmas." I asked a fellow-traveler, “If it were possible to know God personally, would you be interested?” How do you think he responded to my out-of-the-blue question? To many people it may easily seem like presumptuous thought. I mean, an ordinary human-being on a first name basis with an all-knowing, holy, and almighty God, has to seem like an unlikely possibility. Unless, there’s some hard data that such a notion is actually God’s idea. In fact, we believe God’s testimony about Jesus.
A message from the series "Christmas." The good news for Christmas 2020 is that Christmas is for everyone. The bad news of Christmas is that darkness covers the earth. The good news is that Jesus is for everyone. The bad news is that our sin blinds us to the righteousness and lovingkindness of God, condemning every sinner to an eternity separated from the God who loves us. The really good news about Christmas is that God promised a way out of our awful darkness, and that way out is Jesus. In fact, Jesus is the only way out of the dark.
A message from the series "Christmas." It’s actually one of the great Christmas passages and yet it doesn’t talk about angels, shepherds, wise-men, mangers, or Mary and Joseph. But they are foundational to our understanding of who He is and why He came. It may sound like a question a parent might ask a child under various circumstances. “What were you thinking?” What was He thinking? What does the answer have to do with what He is after from us? How seriously does He want us to take this and exactly where will our response take us? His message delivered to us from the pen of the apostle Paul is, “You must have the same attitude as Christ Jesus.”
A message from the series "The Church and Our church." This has been a year of unprecedented opportunity. Can I hear an Amen? Say what? Recognizing serious dangers in the face of this present pandemic, you may have discovered challenges and opportunities through it all. How would you characterize your thinking throughout this turbulent year? Knowing my love for sailing, a friend gave me a small plaque that reads, “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” No matter what life throws at us, God’s word lays out a persistent plan; “Be still, think deeply, and thank God.”
