Special guest for Engage Newark.
Special guest for Engage Newark.
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!
We tend to label everything, but the problem with labels is that they limit our definitions of what people could be or ought to be. Jesus took the labels that were put upon him and redefined them for kingdom purposes.
Jesus chooses the most unlikely of people to be a part of his team. Reggie Byrd explains why and how you too can be part of Jesus’ unhinged plan for redeeming unlikely people.
We often live our lives paralyzed by un-forgiveness. Jesus tells the paralytic that his sins are forgiven and to rise up and walk. We too need to get up out of our paralyzed state and live into the forgiveness Jesus provides for us.
Guest Speaker Pastor Tim Walk brings a message from Mark 1:25-39 as we see Jesus sneaking away fro rest at just the time he should be capitalizing on his newfound fame…he has come unhinged!
Our actions can tend to be as ugly as our Christmas sweaters, but God calls us to greater than that, God calls us to love and to allow God’s love to overflow from us into the lives of others.
Why do you do what you do? Jesus is more often concerned about the heart behind your actions than your actions themselves because we can to do the right thing for the wrong reason. The Christmas season, make Jesus your motivation – the reason why you do what you do.
Often times the people closest to us bear the brunt of the ugliness that comes our mouths. But as a people of Jesus, we are to be the transmitters of joy and love to others. This does not mean that we can’t be truthful with people and have difficult conversations, but it does mean that…