Embracing Abundant Life

Good Soil, Good Seed Series

"Tending the Garden"

Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it.

 -Genesis 2:15

“Tending to Gardens”: God calls us to steward both our own hearts and the hearts of the children entrusted to our care. Hearts are like soil—able to receive seed and produce fruit. Children, in particular, are good soil: receptive, impressi...

Well Done: His Story Series

Matthew 25:21

Looking to God, not only as our Creator and Author, but alsoour Source and strength to walk out our purpose. We have been left on this earth after salvation so that we may do a good work for the Kingdom of God and hear, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” God wants you to arrive at your purposed destination, and He will keep warning, correcting, teaching, and realigning ...

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

His Story Series

“I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;Your works are wonderful—I know that full well.” —Psalm 139:14

We must remember that God did not haphazardly form us orrandomly place us on this earth during this time. We were created with purpose, promise, and God graciously wants to provide the provision and wisdom so that we can receive and walk in all ...

His Story

God is more than our Creator; He is the Author of our lives, and we are doing ourselves a great service if we allow Him to narrate our stories. God formed His plans long ago with perfect faithfulness (Isaiah 25:1). And He reveals His foresight, care, and meticulous planning through creation, Scripture, and human lives.

The Bible is God’s written word given to us to instruct, inform, empower, and guide. We, as believ...

Guard Your Heart

Proverbs 4:23 “Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.

It is important for us, on our mental health wellness journey, to remember to guard our hearts because what we allow to reside in and pass through them will influence how we choose to handle our lives.

Anger is one of those emotions in the human experience that can drive us toward sin. Ephesians 4:26-2...

Awareness

Those in the Christian faith can be tempted to suppress or ignore their emotional or mental distress because they know about God, who heals, delivers, and comforts. But knowing a God who has solutions and answers to it all does not negate the fact that we experience hard things and struggles in this life. God’s word lets us know that Jesus is not ignorant of or apathetic about our struggles, hurts, or weaknesses, but...

God Cares: Conflict

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we sat down withDr. Jaclyn Daniels to discuss conflict and how God uses it to transform and build us up if we let Him direct us in how to deal with it.

Conflict is a dynamic that can create a great deal of mentaland emotional stress, pain, and discomfort. God cares about the issues, relationships, and struggles in our lives, and He wants to guide and comfort us through the...

Shine Bright

God’s People shine because God first shone on them. Believers are redeemed to walk in that light and display God’s character (love, grace, mercy) so others can see Him and come to salvation through Christ.

Believers are chosen and brought out of darkness to be living proof of God’s mercy and Christ’s saving power. We must examine our hearts, desires, and actions. Do we giveoff “light&rd...

Grace is God’s loving initiative—He shines light into darkness and offers a relationship we did not earn. Like Cain, we can be tempted to offer substitutes(effort, sacrifice, religious activity) instead of the obedience and repentance that restore relationship and connection with God. Conviction is described as mercy: a loving interruption that calls us back into alignment before sin overtakes us. Grace also entrusts us...

Repentant Soul

 Guest: Andrea Gatewood

A Repentant Soul is one that longs, desires, and strives tostay God-facing, renouncing, resisting, laying down, and removing anything,person, situation, and temptation that would cause them to even drift 2 degreesfrom being in the Light.

The Lord Jesus has come, and He has shone a light on thethings in our lives that have kept us hindered, bound, distracted, stagnant,and sliding back into ...

One Bad Apple

Sin, when tolerated, rationalized, or ignored, will eventually corrupt the whole life. Walking in the light requires continual dependence on Christ. (1 Corinthians 5:6–7, Romans 12:3)

God’s moral order cannot be bypassed, and actions produceconsequences—spiritually and practically. (Galatians 6:7–8) 

·      Reaping may be delayed, but it is certain.

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