How to Not Be a Hypocrite (as much)

by | Nov 12, 2014 | Weekly Words

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected...

A Humble Confidence

by | Nov 5, 2014 | Weekly Words

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but...

One Step at a Time

by | Oct 29, 2014 | Weekly Words

“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by...

No Longer Orphans

by | Oct 22, 2014 | Weekly Words

Garrett ended Sunday with 10 implications of our adoption into the family of God. I simply want to restate them as a reminder of the enormous gift we have been given in Jesus Christ. ONE | We are free from the orphan’s burden to be good enough to receive God’s favor....

I Was in Darkness, but You Made Me See

by | Oct 15, 2014 | Weekly Words

I was darkness all of my life, I never knew the day from the night, But Spirit, you made me see. I swore I knew the way on my own; Head full of rocks, a heart made of stone But Spirit, you moved in me. And At your touch my sleeping spirit was awakened; On my darkened...

Tune my Heart to sing Thy Grace

by | Oct 8, 2014 | Weekly Words

Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. Come Thou Fount has been one of my favorite hymns. Part of this was because in an organ-only worship environment, it was one of the...