How Does God Define Success?
| Getting Motivated series | The Wrong Definition Kills Motivation Our definition of success is absolutely fundamental to the process of getting motivated. It defines our target, our aim. What are we getting motivated to do after all? Moreover, last time we saw what happens when we have the wrong idea about what success is, …
What If I Don’t Succeed? (Fear of Failure)
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | Getting Motivated series | Inadequacy vs. Fear of Failure In our struggle for motivation, a lot of things can stand in our way. Not least of which is fear, particularly the fear of failure. We all feel it, and to be honest, it’s a …
What if I’m Not the Best?
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | Getting Motivated series | When we’re considering whether we should do something, whether we should work hard at it, the first question that often enters our mind is this: “Will I be any good at it?” To consider that question, we’ll look at the …
What’s Our Motivation?
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | Getting Motivated series | The good news of the gospel is that our righteousness, our position with God, our spot in heaven is not based on what we’ve done. On the cross, Christ gave us all this and more when He gave us His …
Why Am I in a Dry Season?
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | Revelations and Glory series | We have all gone through dry seasons where we feel disconnected from Him, seasons where we don’t see revelations like we used to. Why does this happen? What causes these seasons to sneak up on us? Whereas we have …
We Need Spiritual Hunger
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | Revelations and Glory series | We have all felt lost at times. We’ve all struggled with questions about our purpose. Ever found yourself asking “Why am I here?” or “What’s the point?” We could describe this as a sense of dissatisfaction. We are no …
Revelations that Change Us
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | Revelations and Glory series | “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” Proverbs 25:2 Last time we began to see the truth in the first part of this verse about the glory …
God’s Glory Concealed
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | Revelations and Glory series | God’s Glory Concealed When we study the Scripture, we begin with a mystery that is concealed and, through the process of meditation on His word, God reveals the truth to us. Why did God do it this way though? …
Hope in Heaven
| Hope series | Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Hope enables us to experience the good promises God has for us even while we’re surrounded by the troubles of this life. We saw last time that the Christian life was never meant to be (and frankly cannot be) done without …
Why Did Paul Say YOLO?
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Why Did Paul Say YOLO? … “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 1 Corinthians 15:32 Life can be difficult. Sometimes it’s just a season and sometimes it’s hard to see when it hasn’t been difficult. But somehow, we are called to have …
What Is Hope
| Hope series | What is hope? How is hope different from faith? What are the benefits hope has to offer? Did you know that hope leads to joy and enables patience? I wouldn’t mind a little more joy and I know I could use a little more patience. As we kick off this new …
Can Society Be An Idol?
| Modern Idolatry series | Society Can Be an Idol We’ve seen that God alone defines good and evil. Anytime we decide for ourselves what’s good and what’s evil, we repeat the sin of Adam and Eve when they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Anything we allow to subtly …