Faith

He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting. - Psalm 104:19

1. Sometimes reading the Bible feels like a checklist. 2. Sometimes praying feels like talking to the air. 3. Sometimes worship feels like just singing. 4. Sometimes life feels dry. 5. But obedience in the dry times brings life, even if you don’t immediately see it. 6. Stay faithful. Stay committed. The season won’t last forever.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. - Revelation 3:20

1. Stubbornness: refusing to change direction no matter what. 2. Giving up: changing direction because it got hard. 3. Perseverance: staying the course because you know who called you to it.

1: "God designed the human machine to run on Himself." - C.S. Lewis 2: We try to find life in things that were never meant to sustain us. Work. Validation. Relationships. Performance. 3: But none of it can fill what only God can. 4: God cannot be an add-on to your life. He must be The Source of it.

Continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. - Colossians 2:6-7

Choose to trust God in the middle of what you don’t understand

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. - Deuteronomy 6:6

1: God doesn’t backtrack. 2: He doesn’t contradict Himself. 3: What He said, He meant. 4: What He promised, He will do. 5: You can build your life on that kind of truth.

God's Faithfulness Never Fails

Small Faith in a Big God

There is power in the name of Jesus

Faith Deconstructed: Honest questions about faith and religion.

Holiness isn’t a Sunday thing. It’s an everyday thing.

1. Signs you might be in a wilderness season… 2. You're doing everything right and nothing is moving. Praying. Reading. Showing up. And it feels like your prayers are hitting the ceiling and sliding down the wall. 3. You're not angry at God exactly. Just...confused. The silence isn't hostile. It's just very, very quiet. 4. The things that used to fill you up aren't filling you up the same way right now. Worship feels flat. Scripture feels familiar but distant. You're going through the motions and you know it. 5. You keep waiting for the thing that's supposed to happen next. And it keeps not happening. And you're running out of ways to be okay with that. 6. You're tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix. Not physically exhausted. Soul tired. 7. Here’s the thing: The wilderness is where God does some of his most important work. Israel. Moses. David. Jesus. All of them spent time there. None of them stayed forever. 8. The wilderness has an exit. You are not lost. You are in process. And the God who led you in is the same God who leads you out.

The Fight: We wrestle not against flesh and blood...

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” - John 14:6

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. - Psalm 62:8

Be brave.

1. Job worshiped after losing everything. 2. Paul and Silas sang in prison. 3. Abraham trusted God and left his home for a land he’d never seen. 4. Mary said yes before she knew what pregnancy would mean. 5. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego worshiped even under threat of death. 6. We don’t have to understand everything or feel happy with our circumstances to worship.

Christian faith isn't blind. It's believing God will do for you what He did for others.

He’s got the whole world in His hands