Prayer - Grace
No Smell of Smoke
We wrap up our four week series today, looking at Daniel chapter 3. Let me ask you this: do you love a good bonfire? Living in the Midwest, a good backyard fire pit is practically a requirement! But you know exactly what happens when you leave the fire. That smoke gets into everything. It gets into your jacket, it gets into your hair, and you can even wake up the next morning and your pillow smells like a campfire. You can take a shower, throw your clothes in the wash, and somehow, that smell of smoke still lingers for days.…
Read More →Under the Ultimate Umbrella
I have some encouragement for you today from Romans 5:1 2 . Have you ever been caught in a sudden, torrential downpour without an umbrella? It’s the worst! You’re running across the parking lot, trying to hold a soggy piece of cardboard or a wet receipt over your head, desperately hoping it keeps you dry. Spoiler alert: it never works. You end up soaked, cold, and looking like a drowned cat. It’s inconvenient when it happens in a parking lot, but it’s exhausting when we do it in our spiritual lives. So many of us live our lives constantly dodging…
Read More →The Unshakable Kingdom
I was looking over our prayer list yesterday, we have over 2,000 prayers that have been submitted and I’ll be honest with you—it can be heavy. We see names next to words like "cancer," "divorce," "financial crisis," or "addiction." When you look at that list, or even just turn on the news, it can feel like the whole world is shaking. It feels like the floor is moving underneath us, like trying to walk on a trampoline. It’s unstable. It’s scary. But I have some incredible news for you today. While everything in the world might be shaking, we have…
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