Posts with the category “calling”

Our witness to the world depends on our witness with Christ. A church that is alive to the cross and resurrection is a church that cannot help but overflow into the lives of people around it. Not because it is trying to grow, but because it is genuinely captivated by the One who died and lives again.  Read More

Drift is reversible. No matter how far off course life has wandered, the Father is not standing at a distance with condemnation. He is standing with open arms, saying come back. Come back to the life I always had for you. Come back to the calling, the purpose, the fullness that is found only in Me.  Read More

True encouragement is not the same as empty affirmation. It is not telling people what they want to hear or smoothing over difficult truths to keep the peace. Biblical encouragement, what the New Testament calls paraklesis, the same root word used for the Holy Spirit Himself, is something far more substantive.  Read More

You and I hold the cure for what the world is suffering from. The question is simply whether we are hiding it or sharing it. Let conviction, not guilt, be the thing that moves us forward — because God has not entrusted us with the Gospel so we can keep it to ourselves. He has entrusted us with it so the world can know Him.  Read More

What does it truly mean to live for Christ? Not just to believe in Him, not just to attend church on Sundays, but to actually pour out every ounce of who we are for His kingdom? This isn't a question of religious duty or spiritual performance. It's an invitation into the most radical, fulfilling existence imaginable.  Read More

The magnitude of God's call matches the magnitude of who He is. And because He is with us, we can walk confidently into everything He's prepared for us to do. Not in our strength, but in His. Not for our glory, but for His. Not alone, but abiding in the vine, producing fruit that will last for generations and into eternity.  Read More