WHAT IS LIFE ABOUT? If God Is Real, What Is He Like? Believing that God might exist raises another question. What kind of God might be behind the world we experience? It is possible to believe that some kind of God exists without knowing very much about what that God is like. Perhaps God is…
WHAT IS LIFE ABOUT? Does God Exist? People have asked the question for thousands of years. What reasons might we have for believing there is more behind the universe than the universe itself? Does God exist? For some people, the answer seems obvious. For others, belief in God feels difficult or even unnecessary. Many of…
WHAT IS LIFE ABOUT? Why Do I Feel Like Something Is Missing? Sometimes life can be going reasonably well and still feel incomplete. What might that feeling be trying to tell us? It can be difficult to explain the feeling that something is missing. Nothing may be obviously wrong. Life may even look pretty good…
WHAT IS LIFE ABOUT? Is There More to Life Than What We Can See? The physical world is extraordinary. But is everything that matters about being human something we can see, measure, or explain? We have become very good at understanding the world around us. We can study distant galaxies, map the human genome, watch…
WHAT IS LIFE ABOUT? What Is the Meaning of Life? It may be one of the biggest questions we can ask. But perhaps we begin answering it in surprisingly ordinary places. What is the meaning of life? The question can sound almost too large to be useful. Philosophers have debated it for centuries. Religions and…
WHAT IS LIFE ABOUT? What Really Makes Us Happy? We spend a lot of time pursuing things we think will make us happy. Why does some happiness last while other happiness disappears so quickly? Most of us want to be happy. We may describe it differently, but much of everyday life is shaped by things…
WHAT IS LIFE ABOUT? Does My Life Have a Purpose? Most of us want our lives to matter. But is purpose something we discover, something we create, or perhaps a little of both? Purpose can seem like a very big word. We sometimes imagine that having a purpose means discovering one great thing we were…
WHAT IS LIFE ABOUT? What Makes a Life Worth Living? We spend much of life trying to make life better. But what actually makes a life worth living? Most of us do not wake up every morning asking what makes life worth living. We think about what needs to get done, where we need to…
Kingdom Wisdom | Part 7 Look at the Fruit Matthew 7:15–20 From Pastor Steve We are in a series called Kingdom Wisdom, looking at the wisdom Jesus gives us for living in the Kingdom of God. Last week Jesus placed two ways before us. Two gates. Two roads. Two destinations. And He invited us to…
Day 1: Two Ways Before Us Devotional Jesus begins with a clear invitation: enter through the narrow gate. In Matthew 7:13–14, He places two gates, two roads, and two destinations before us. This is not merely a warning about where not to go; it is an invitation to choose the road that leads to life….