If you’re not aware of it, these Psalms of Ascent could as well be called “Songs of Ascent.” They’re actually songs the Israelites were singing out as they were climbing the mountain. They were heralding the message, “God is the answer.” I believe it was a divinely inspired notion to ...

Your phortion is your calling, your work, your family, your integrity, and your daily obedience. No one else can carry it for you, and no one else will answer for it. "Each of us will give an account of ourselves to God" (Rom. 14:12), and Paul urges the Corinthians, "Let ...

Pursuing satisfaction for our own desires often looks like the best path to freedom. But without self-control, we end up getting controlled by those ever-changing desires. The Bible teaches us that the good life is found in living with love for God and neighbour in every situation. Although it may ...

Proverbs 15:1 says, "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." That kind of answer is possible when we stay connected to Jesus and cooperate with the Holy Spirit. He's the Master Gardener who produces this fruit in us, we don't need to strive or ...

There is a deep trust required to say, “Okay Jesus, I am going to put you first in my schedule.” But as you trust Him and abide in the vine, fruit grows! And this fruit that the apostle Paul is talking about isn’t produced based on how long you’ve been ...

If you are walking through pain right now, you are not walking through it alone, and you are not walking through it forever. Jesus does not offer a philosophical answer from a distance, but instead, He offers Himself, a Savior who wept at Lazarus's tomb, who bled on a cross, ...

Christian freedom doesn’t mean living with no authority over your life. It means living under the right authority. In Jesus’ day, becoming someone’s disciple meant more than sitting in a class and learning information. A disciple learned the teacher’s way of understanding Scripture and then tried to actually live it ...

We can be very good at making things happen. Most of the time the thing we are trying so desperately to produce is something only God can produce. There is another son in the story. Isaac is the result of God keeping His promise. Humanly speaking, there seemed to be ...

What It Means to Be a Child of God Have you ever walked into a room and wondered, Do I really belong here? Maybe you’ve felt like the outsider, the forgotten one, or the person who doesn’t quite fit. For some of us, those feelings go deeper. Experiences with family, ...

Just as earthly inheritances aren't earned but received simply because we belong to a family, our heavenly inheritance comes because we belong to God's family through Christ. An earthly inheritance becomes official through a signed will. Our heavenly inheritance has been signed and sealed by the Holy Spirit. Paul calls ...

The real fight isn't trying harder—it's trusting deeper. Every day we're faced with the same question: Will I trust God, or will I trust myself? That was my problem that day in the kitchen. Somewhere along the way, I had drifted from the simplicity of the gospel. I was no ...

We are like a person drowning in the middle of a vast, storm-tossed ocean with no land in sight. We cannot save ourselves. Our only hope is for a rescuer to come. Christ has come to rescue us, and we receive that rescue not by our own efforts, but by ...

Many of us have grown up around Christianity. We attend church because our parents do/did, or perhaps because our friends invited us. We know the Bible stories, we sing the songs, and we even know the answers to some basic questions about Jesus. But eventually every one of us has ...

What we all seek isn't found in winning everyone's approval or even in following our own desires. It’s found in surrendering our lives to Christ and living for His pleasure alone. When God becomes our audience of One, we are free - not to please everyone, but to love them, ...

You may have come to faith in Jesus while still carrying years of fear, self-doubt, or the quiet belief that God's love was something you had to continually prove yourself worthy of. If so, the book of Galatians was written for you. As a church, we will be diving more ...

Family Is God’s Design Family is and has always been God’s idea. He ordained it and designed it long before the world culture had the chance to redefine it. The apostle Paul points to us that our Lord has revealed Himself to us as a Father –  2 Corinthians 6:18: ...

The word kingdom comes from two ideas: king and dominion. Simply put, a kingdom is the place where the will of the king is done. When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He told them to ask that His Kingdom would come and His will be done “on earth as ...