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All You Need Is Love, Part 2

February 21, 2017

The Holy Spirit is the catalyst that helps us know the Father’s love, and it’s the Holy Spirit that now awakens us to want to love like the Father loves. So the next time you experience that inner compulsion to love someone unselfishly, whereas before, you might have feared them, ignored them or rejected them… that is evidence of God’s Holy Spirit alive in you.

All You Need Is Love

February 16, 2017

God didn’t just love us so we could be forgiven, although that is true. God didn’t just love us so we could know Him and enjoy Him forever, although that is also true. No, God loved us so that He could love through us. This is what you need, what you hunger for, and what our world needs! Real love, sacrificial love, gracious and merciful love. And God loved us so that when we love one another like He loved us, then His love will have gone full circle – it will be complete! What a privilege is ours then, to love one another.

Past, Present and Future Grace

February 5, 2017

So they began to do this new life together – to share with one another, pray with one another, and they to worship together in the temple courts and from house to house. They began to eat together and serve together. And as they did life together, God did something too. He began to add to their number daily those who were being saved.

The Hero of Our Story: Grace and More Grace

January 31, 2017

That’s the good news of God’s mercy. Out of the abundance of God’s blessing comes the gift of God’s mercy to us in Jesus. He delivers us from the consequences of our sin. He takes away our guilt and shame. He makes us righteous and gives us a new life. That’s the gospel.

The Hero of Our Story: Blessed Dissatisfaction

January 24, 2017

God makes us Oaks of righteousness so we can bring new life and peace to our neighborhoods, to our cities, to our nation. To rebuild broken lives through things as simple as the Santa Cruz Valley Food Bank. To restore hope for a generation who has been overwhelmed by poverty. To renew lives by sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. We are planted here as Oaks of righteousness for the display of His splendor, to show our world there is another way of life… the way of the kingdom.

The Hero of Our Story: Jesus the Teacher

January 9, 2017

The majority of Jesus’ teaching was reserved for those who had apprenticed themselves to Jesus, the Rabbi. They had come to be with him, so they could learn from him how to live out the Word of God. And so there they were, sitting at the feet of Jesus, ready to learn, ready to be challenged and changed, because they believed Jesus had the words of life – of new life: Life in the kingdom of God.

The Hero of Our Story: Jesus the Friend of Sinners

December 18, 2016

Jesus pursues the worst of sinners. No one is too sinful; no one is too wicked, no one is too horrible that Jesus cannot redeem. Jesus came to redeem the worst of us and the best of us. There is no difference in his eyes. That’s why there is so much hope in Jesus. He loves us all, no matter what we’ve done; no matter how awful we are; Jesus has come to give us a new start, a new life.