Focusing on having a great family can actually cause my family to become my idol. Focusing on pursuing God’s mission in our lives will cause us to experience Jesus deeply and the result is a flourishing family. It is the result. Not the pursuit.

As God’s family we are learning how we are fully known and fully loved. This awakens something healthy within us to help us be fully loving. Our families and our households should be influenced and blessed by God’s love as our first priority. Take some time to pray these verses over your family. Purpose to say their names out loud in prayer declaring verses and ideas like these.

The entertainment world captivates our attention and defines our perspective. So many times we are left needing to dismantle and unlearn wrong things so we can learn right things correctly.

As God’s family we are learning how we are fully known and fully loved. This awakens something healthy within us to help us be fully loving. Our families and our households should be influenced and blessed by God’s love as our first priority. 

The Apostle Paul established the Galatian church in the grace of God through Christ Jesus. In his absence a group of Judaizers began throwing the church into confusion claiming grace was great but it needed to be coupled with human efforts to be complete. Paul was not having it and he was very bold in his address to expose this confusion.

Mercy is when God alleviates what we deserve from our lives. Grace is when God applies what Jesus deserves to our lives. Our mistakes are never too great for God to conquer. 

The motivation for book of Galatians came from Jewish Christians who believed ceremonial practices of the Old Testament were still binding on the New Testament believers. They insisted that Gentile converts to Christianity abide by certain Old Testament rites, especially circumcision. 

If we merely get people to attend church but don’t effectively make disciples we are only contributing to greater problem of disillusionment in our society.

Fairly often I like to rehearse what I believe to be most significant ministry framework known to man. I know it is a grand statement to make but the more I walk with Jesus the more deeply convicted I become about the simple and powerful table.

Have you ever sent somebody a text message and they didn’t text you back? Then later they needed something so they send you a text putting their request on top of your text as a visual that they neglected you but now want something? This can be frustrating in any relationship. I wonder if this is how God feels when we are only interested in talking to him about our agenda but when he wants us to embrace his agenda we’re not responsive.

However far you’ve gone with God there is more! God desires you to be hungry, expecting and even desperate.

What is Love? Love is an awakened lifestyle. This is a lifestyle of embracing God’s love for us and expressing this awakened love in our lives for others.