Even after turning our lives over to Christ, we can still pray as though God were there to serve our wants and protect our plans. In Matthew 7, Jesus says, “Ask, seek, and knock,” raising a searching question for daily prayer: When we belong to Him, what should we be asking our Father to give?
This week, Melanie explores the attitude we need to bring to worship. You can find the first part here and the second part here.
King David reminds us about how God feels about evil — and by seeing that, we’re challenged and encouraged about where we want to be and who we are.
Jesus calls us to a path of healthy sharing of His Kingdom led by discernment and patience.
This week, Melanie explores the history of worship in the Bible and the church. You can find the first part of her trilogy of studies on worship here.
What do we think of when we wake up? Psalm 5 suggests we change up our first thoughts of the morning to something more refreshing.
When Jesus says that we should get the log out of our own eye before helping someone get a speck out, what does He have in mind? Is He calling us to stop making any moral judgments?
This week, our worship director, Melanie Haynes, considers what makes music “Christian.”
What happens when the rain comes in and it felt like we were following God’s call?
Our past can feel like the wrong ingredients for a quality life recipe. But the case of the Apostle Paul shows God thinks otherwise. He does not waste our past but uses it as He sends us out as agents of the same transformation we have received.