We live in a world that rewards performance. It’s ingrained in us from an early age. Tests, sports, education, manners; almost everything. And this performance-based mindset affects our view of and relationship to God. We can believe we must perform to certain standards to be in right relationship with God. We feel that when we do the right thing, God turns his chair toward us. We feel that when we do the wrong thing, He turns His is back on us. As such, we begin creating religious performance-based rules for ourselves and then live by them, in bondage. But Jesus didn’t come to start a religion. He came to restore a relationship.
Two disciplines are vital to growing our relationship with Jesus: praying and reading the Bible. In week two of the Vital series, we talked...
We all face temptations of different kinds. Too often we surrender to temptation because, well, it’s tempting, and we’ve failed and have given into...
To ruthlessly eliminate hurry we must arrange our lives around what matters most and remove what competes with it. Sermon Challenge Questions: - What...
