He made you. He bought you back. He will be with you. He loves you! Believing in him is not childish or irrational but mature and logical.
Even those who are our truest friends are subject to limitations that keep them from fulfilling their obligations to us as a friend. But there is One upon whom there are no limitations.
A true friend will confront us with the truth we need to hear and will be honest with us because they want to help us.
You cannot be the right kind of friend to others if you have not made a conscious choice to first be friends with Christ.
It's a new year and people are going to be trying all kinds of things to change their outsides. Our hope today is to encourage you and give you hope for changing what's on the inside.
Why is God not enough for us? Why do we not recognize how good we have it and how wonderful God really is?
As Jesus continues his narrative in Luke 15, he tells a story of a rebellious child. He tells the story so we can understand the father who set the redemption of nativity in motion.
Jesus had to be born because we the people need a Shepherd.
What if, through the senseless evil of Civil War, God was bringing unreached people groups to our cities?
What if through great tragedy God was bringing about the triumph of the Gospel?