What do you do when the promises of God invoke pain, not comfort?
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We were made to know God. So how do we live that out in the day-to-day? How do we know a God we cannot see? How do we foster a friendship with a God we cannot sit across from?
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What is required to have a friendship with God? To know him personally? Looking at the woman at the well in John 4 we'll look at (1) what Jesus offers, (2) what Jesus reveals, and (3) who Jesus is.
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How can you know if you truly know God? This message addresses 3 counterfeit forms of knowing God and how you can know if you have the real thing.
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What can we do in this time of isolation? Of course we should still strive to do life together, even if that means through Zoom, FaceTime, texting, phone calls, and letters. None of us can make it through this alone! But I think there is more we can do. This quarantine is giving us time to do two things that will greatly strengthen our communities.
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There is nothing I feel more passionate about than knowing God. It is the greatest privilege of my life. The deepest joy. The thing that gives me purpose and meaning. To know Him is by far greater than all the treasures this world has to offer.
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I have really fond memories of solitude. Being quiet on purpose to hear from God has become a spiritual discipline I cannot live without. But, I also understand that sitting still may be the last thing you want to do. There are many things that prevent us from quieting ourselves before the Lord. It is for that reason that I wrote this solitude guide.
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If you place all your longings on a future marriage, it will crush it. Only God himself can carry the weight of our deepest hopes and dreams.
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How can we work to create an environment where deep and meaningful friendships can form? This is exactly the question I was hoping to address at a women's event at my church recently. In this post you can listen to my talk on How to Cultivate Community.
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For the Christian, the college years are often marked by grand desires to change the world in the name of Jesus. It is a time filled with ministry opportunities and therefore marked by busyness for many young people who don't want to waste any ministry opportunity in their path. But doing things for Jesus cannot and should not be your primary goal. If it is, you have sidelined the only work that truly matters: knowing God through Jesus, His Son.
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