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This week we started a three-year journey where we explore God and man through His three persons, Yahweh and the People, Jesus and the People, and The Holy Spirit and the People.

“Our Image of God” focuses on how formative experiences both spiritual, emotional, and physical affect our image of God and therefore can shape our spiritual paradigm.  

A lasting, fulfilling journey with God starts with faith. Like Abraham, we must start the joinery without having the answers to all the questions and trust that God will lead us to the destination.

Preparation for a journey with God is important if we are to make it to the end. As we embark on a new season let’s make sure we prepare our hearts and minds for new challenges, new sacrifices, and new attitudes. To get to a new level of relationship with God our time with Him has to be consecrated and uninterrupted by worldly things. Let’s start a new chapter in our walk with God!

 

We never know what life will bring and when. Therefore, we must examine ourselves that our faith is based not on man’s wisdom but on the work of the cross. As humans, we are often more concerned with how we look than with how we worship Christ. As Christians, however, we try to concern ourselves with nothing else but Christ and Him crucified so that none can boast.

To outsiders, the Bible seems like a book of NOs. We look at the story of Jonah and how his hubris (defiance) of saying no to God turned into the humility of accepting a no from God. When we pray, sometimes the answer is no, but we can rest assured that God generally says no to protect us (from ourselves) or because he has something better in mind that requires you to be exactly where you are in that moment. Therefore, the best road forward is one where we put aside our defiance and humbly submit to God.