Worship Messages

Grace hides in the most unlikely and obscure places. It often takes patience and slowing down to see it. Many times we find grace only when we sift through the mundane details of life.  One of the most effective things a counselor will do with a client is a gen-o-gram. It’s a family tree looking at the behavioral history […]

Jesus plus anything removes us from the center of the Gospel – there is a part of our human nature that wants to contribute to God’s work – we want to add something to it – we can’t just accept it. We want to improve on God’s love of us. The thing we add, if […]

There is more to knowing God than we will ever know. In fact, the longer I walk with the Lord the more I realize that I don’t know about Him. The more I also realize that I must accept without answers. There are also a lot of things that we know about God in our […]

The crazy chaos of the lives of parents, it’s hard sometimes to grab the wheel and steer life where you want it to go. Today we’re going to find some keys to parenting from God’s Word.

Difficult people. High maintenance relationships. We’ve all got them.  As a result of these relationships, you put enormous amounts of thought, emotion and time and only feel frustrated, helpless, fearful, anxious, guilty, confused, angry or a general sense of being out of control. God’s word has some words for us on all of this and […]

There are things that make for good marriages and relationships and things that make for bad ones. In fact, bad things can happen to good marriages and if we’re not careful they can undermine all that we’ve worked for in the past. Every relationship – friendships, neighbors, marriage, parents – every relationship encounters some desperate […]

God will forgive us. He then expects that we will forgive others BECAUSE we’ve been forgiven. God forgives first. But again and again Jesus said in no uncertain terms that our unwillingness to forgive others destroys the bridge over which God’s grace and forgiveness come to us. If this is how the forgiveness thing works […]

The Biblical book of Proverbs contains the collection of the best wisdom that Israel had to offer. These proverbs are based on experience and observation and offer us practical advice for living wisely. They’re like guardrails. Guardrails keep us safe. They save our lives. They warn us of dangerous places. Guardrails keep us from driving […]

Healthy friendships are connected to our relationship with God.  Choosing friends wisely and loving them completely will help us grow in Christ and our relationship with God.