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God Wants to Restore You | 9/4/2022

Have you ever been to a junk yard? The owner of a salvage yard buys cars that have been damaged so much that they aren’t worth the money to fix restore the vehicle. So they buy it to tear it apart and sell the parts individually and make a ton of money. 
They don’t buy the cars to restore them, they buy them to tear them apart so that others can be fixed.
God isn’t running a salvage yard. God is in the restoration business. He didn’t buy you with the blood of Jesus to part you out. He bought you to restore you.

God, Who Loves Laughter | 8/28/2022

Laughter is one of the most important things you can do for your body, mind, and soul. “A cheerful heart is good medicine” (Proverbs 17:22).
There are so many benefits to laughter, that without it, we may be causing great damage to ourselves if we aren’t allowing it into our lives.

Making Your Life Stable | Living a Meaningful Life | 8/21/2022

Some of you grew up in anything but stability. Your parents didn’t provide a stable family, or a stable place to live. Maybe they got divorced along the way and it was drama all the time.
Or maybe they were an addict that never even tried to get their life together to raise you in a good place.
Let’s do something in your life today that really needs to be done. In the Old Testament, whenever there was a big decision made, or a big experience had, they would mark the place with a stone and write one it. Today, in your heart, set up a stone marker that you can always look at to remind you that from this day forward, your life is going to be focused on stability.

Meaningful Gifts to God | Living a Meaningful Life | 8/14/2022

What kind of gifts are you presenting to Jesus as a thank you for His Grace?
The Scripture indicates that we cannot take anything with us, but we can send stuff ahead of us. God has an organization keeping track of your account in heaven. You can make as many deposits as you would like into that account every day.
The work you do to fill your heavenly account is LOVE. 

Body Builders | Living a Meaningful Life | 8/7/2022

It takes every Church doing its’ part to make the global body of Christ function properly.
Our part at this point may seem to be small or insignificant, but we are here and doing it. Our presence in the Global Body of Christ matters. We are meaningful. We are significant.

Experiencing the God Life | Living a Meaningful Life | 7/31/2022

The struggle our generation faces, unlike any other previous generation is that our minds and emotions have been trained how to be content with experiencing someone else’s story.
We are able to live out the greatness of characters in movies and tv without ever having to experience those accomplishments ourselves.
This frame of mind is exactly how so many have approached Christianity.  Deep inside we all have a desire to experience Christianity, the adventures we read about in the Bible. 
I’m asking you and challenging myself to not be content with others' stories or Christianity from long ago. I want my own stories about God’s miracles, signs and wonders.

DIRECTION -Living a Meaningful Life- 7/24/2022

Ask yourself,  “What direction am I headed in life?”  If your life were to be mapped out, what would it look like?  
What would the map look like for your life’s road to a mature relationship with Him?  That is, Your ultimate purpose in living: A meaningful relationship with God. 
How much closer to that goal are you getting?

Worth Living For -Living a Meaningful Life- 7/17/2022

What are you doing today that makes life worth living in spite of the pain? You can live with such meaning and purpose today that the pain and suffering of this life are no longer relevant compared to the good you are doing.
The only real problem we face in this life is not living a life with purpose and meaning that outweighs the pain.

Comparing Yourself with Christ -Living a Meaningful Life- 7/10/2022

Hard wired in each of us is the ability to see and appreciate “the ideal” in everything. And humans have a unique ability to look at other humans, and mimic what they like about others in themselves. When we choose the wrong things or wrong people to imitate, major problems arise in our lives.
Here's the truth, the only one you and I should be comparing ourselves to is Jesus. Comparing our lives to anyone other than Christ causes a lot of pain and unnecessary problems in our lives. 

Enlisted for Life -Living a Meaningful Life- 7/3/2022

As good soldiers of Christ we need to look at every area of our lives and get it together to the best of our ability. Our finances. Our health. Our homes. Our emotions. Our schedules. Some of us are letting everyone and everything run our lives so much that we have zero time to do anything for God. 
What is keeping you from being a good soldier for Christ? When the church needs your gifts, your talents, your abilities to help, to teach, to facilitate, to clean, to welcome guests, to reach the lost, whatever---what keeps you from doing it?