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.
God wants to grow our trust in Him, because as trust goes so goes the relationship. Having unshakable, trust and faith in God is...
Easter Matters. Because of Easter, you can have true hope.
What if the reason our prayers don’t seem to work is because we are not praying correctly? What if we are doing it wrong?...
