Jesus calls everyone who follows him to deny yourself, take up your cross and follow him. But Jesus’ cross is not the romanticized version that we know of today. Jesus’ cruciform way is all about losing one’s life for the sake of Jesus.
Sometimes Jesus calms storms, sometimes Jesus calms hearts, sometimes Jesus does both…but we can go through all the storms of life when we focus completely on Jesus.
When we allow politics to consume us, it interrupts our relationship with God (puts politics before Christ) and ourselves (degrades the Imago Dei in us as we dehumanize/demonize others) as well as tears apart relationships with believers and wrecks our witness with nonbelievers.
Often times the world around, those who are not believers yet, see believers and people within the church as close-minded and misogynistic. So, how can we love non-believers when they may want nothing to do with us? Pastor Mariah Miskimen talks with us about our DTR: Our relationship with non-believers.
Why is it that people within the North American church have such a hard time getting along and what can we do about it?f
Often times the thing that we consume actually consumes us. It consumes our thinking, our money, our time and we become possessed by it. Join Pastor Mariah Miskimen as she talks about a proper relationship with consumption.
How we view ourselves influences how we relate to others. God’s design for our relationship to ourselves is for us to have humble confidence in our being created in the image of God. However, we often go outside of that intention and assume an identity in disgrace and humiliation of less than the Image of…
Our relationship with God is foundational to every other relationship that we have. If we can get this one right, then life will be a lot easier navigating all of our other relationships.
Whether you want to reach out and touch Jesus or be touched by Jesus, Jesus’ touch is a healing touch and he always meets you where you are.
Jesus is found sleeping on the boat in the midst of the storm while his disciples struggle to keep the boat floating! What the disciples forgot was that Jesus promised to get him to the other side. If Jesus is in your boat, your boat is not going to sink!
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