Dumb Things Smart Christians Do: Living Distracted
Have you ever been caught in the “shiny object syndrome” — where what glitters brightest steals your attention? It happens to all of us, and advertisers spend BILLIONS to distract us even more. But what God says what we look at matters, because our vision sets our direction. Our heart …
Know Your Season
If your life can be measured in seasons, what season do you think you are currently in? Although we don’t get to choose our seasons; it is critical that we know the season God has us in! It is our hearts, not our ages or circumstances that shape the seasons …
Dumb Things Smart Christians Do: Bad Decisions
Christians aren’t immune from making bad decisions. Our old “sin nature” continues urging us to do dumb things — but we can fight back. And part of fighting back has to do with asking smart questions when we’re processing decisions. Today we’ll discover three helpful questions we can use when …
Dumb Things Smart Christians Do: I Can’t
Often times we look for a variety of things to say “I Can’t” but in order to follow God, we need to be able to give God everything we have and everything we are. It’s an all in offer from God to us and from us to God.
Dumb Things Smart Christians Do: Being Judgy
Have you ever felt judged? Yep. And it’s always painful. Harder question: have we ever judged others? Yep, again! And it’s dumb — because it always chases people from our lives and never moves people in the direction we were hoping for! Today we discover what the Bible says about …
Dumb Things Smart Christians Do: Isolation
There’s something within our human nature that tells us to hide when we’re facing trouble. Like Adam and Eve hiding from God and each other, we mistakenly think we can self-protect by running away from community. But God’s desire is to move us out of isolation and into community — …
Christian Conduct 1b
Followers of Jesus are to obey the authorities in their lives. We’re told this repeatedly and consistently in the New Testament. But is “obedience” an iron-clad rule without exception? The Bible shows us there are times when, like the Apostles, “we must obey God rather than any human authority.” Today …
Christian Conduct 1a
The conduct of those who follow Jesus should be different than how it used to be when we were following our own path. And the Bible is clear that part of that difference is learning to live “under” the authority of others — actually becoming obedient in ways that reflect …
Christian Conduct 1.5
“Be ready to do whatever is good.” Before we start thinking that statement is a generic Christian throw-away line, we’re going to take a deeper look. And what we find is that this idea — of doing good — is woven throughout Scripture and is at the very core of …
Finding True Freedom in Christ
On this Fourth of July, Pastor Lisa shares on how we should consider freedom in a spiritual aspect so that we would not be held captive by anything. Jesus came to this world and paid a high price for us to walk in the truth of God’s word. Pastor Lisa …