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  We are moved by God’s blessings and the richness of His glory to pray for one another in present, powerful, and prophetic ways. Prayer is also an ongoing dialogue, back and forth between us and God, and a response to the language of Resurrection — the power living in us that raised Christ from […]

  The Holy Spirit is the least understood and most often neglected Person of the Triune God, what Christians call The Trinity. Some Jesus followers bear memories of painful distortions where the Spirit’s Person and work are misrepresented. Other traditions emphasize The Father-Son relationship, and so minimize the Spirit. However, Jesus’ teaching and Paul’s letters […]

Identity and purpose are hugely impactful categories. To flourish, we need a strong, stable sense of identity. We also long to live meaningful lives with purposeful intent. Identity and purpose are intertwined, with identity fueling purpose and purpose reinforcing identity. Ephesians contains a unique, paragraph-long sentence where Paul zeroes in on identity via God’s lavish […]

Many people have endless opinions about what the Church should be, but only Jesus creates it, working through Spirit-filled people. So, what should that look like? Among the most beautiful descriptions of the Church Jesus is building occurs in Paul’s letter named for the Ephesians. In response, Pastor and author Eugene Peterson coined the term […]

It’s easy to connect the ideas of healing and freedom. For example, healing usually includes freedom from sickness and pain. However, there’s another kind of freedom. It’s the kind that involves breaking things like shackles and limitations that come with the world’s brokenness.  There’s another kind of healing too. It’s the kind that mends our […]

We were always meant to work in a Garden. God’s original design was for a place of beauty and fruitfulness that would yield its benefits into the hands of faithful gardeners. The Garden’s fruitfulness was always intended to increase as the gardeners were faithful. This same principle applies to many areas of our lives: family, […]