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James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Denying how you feel will cause you to bury your anger until you explode or give up. Confess it! Be honest about how you are feeling but leave the judgement of the situation to the Lord. No matter how you learned to process your anger growing up, you don’t have…

Please join us for our new series, ‘Good To Go’ (Series about End Times). Anytime you are on a trip, it’s important to know your destination. When our kids were young, my wife and I planned a trip to Disneyland. We didn’t tell the kids that we were going, but we packed all their stuff and hid the suitcases in the back of our car. I told the kids I was going to flip a coin and every time it…

Can prayer be risky? Most of the time we pray safe prayers. God bless me, help me, protect me, and heal me. Risky prayers are not easy, but they are life changing. They are the result of a spirit of brokenness and are filled with bold faith. I want to encourage you to spend three times this week Reading the three scriptures below and praying the Holy Spirit would speak to you about what he wants you give over to…

This is one of the few times in God’s word where we get to peek behind the supernatural curtain, where Daniel was given a revelation from God. Without this chapter, and its illumination of the demonic battling forces, we wouldn’t know how important our prayers are, in the unseen world. Daniel 10:12-13 12 Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God,…

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. God’s word is the most powerful weapon of all, at any time in history. God’s word is effective, cutting through all lies while bringing joy and peace through eternal truth. Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the…

Many Christians are losing more battles than they would like to admit. We can experience more victory in our lives if we learn to fight Biblically. Who or what are our enemies? The world (Sociological Opposition) 1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride…

Sometimes the stress of work can cause us to feel like the walls are closing in on us. What do you do when problems at work seem overwhelming? Are we doomed to gritting our teeth and pretending to smile? How did the apostle Paul handle this stress when he was on his missionary journeys? 2 Corinthians 1:8-11 8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We…

If we want to experience change in our communities, the way we talk to others will make all the difference when it comes time to moving forward in building unity and purpose. Hebrews 10:24-25a And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another— When God moves in a community, He builds a team. The leaders…

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. To be on the right path, the straight path, means to be blessed. We will be on the right path that leads to God’s inheritance if we put our trust in God’s word, instead of putting our weight down on our own understanding. Trusting God leads to mental, social,…

I think one of the things we struggle the most with today is an unthankful heart. We have so much, and yet we worship the things in this world. We want more. All throughout the Old and New Testament, God makes promises about preparing a place for us. We can be truly thankful that God keeps his promises. Over and over in the Bible we see God make and keep His promises. In the book of Isaiah, we see God…

God chose Israel to be a blessing to all the nations by telling them all about God’s love and truth. Instead, they focused on themselves, and treated the poor with cruelty and disrespect. So, Amos shares a few poems that expose Israel’s religious hypocrisy. These poems show how they are committed to attending the religious gatherings, making sacrifices to God while neglecting the poor and ignoring prejudice and injustice. Amos 5:21-24 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies…

Jonah 1:1-3 The word of the Lord came to Jonah, son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord. Why would Jonah run in…

James 1:13-15 And remember, when you are being tempted, do not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else. 14 Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. 15 These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death. I spent my summers fishing with my grandfather in Eugene, Oregon. If he cast his line two…

Mark 8:34-37 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in…

Ephesians 4:26-27 In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. What temptations consistently create a foothold for Satan in your life? What negative emotions set you on a darker path? Ephesians 4:30-32 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling…

We are starting a new series on the major prophets. We will spend the next twelve weeks going through each of these twelve powerful and challenging books. Most people don’t spend much time in most of these books because they can be a little difficult to track because they consist of so much poetry and refer to many different times in Israel’s history. I’m excited to see these books come alive as we start with overviews of each book, and…