01/06/2019

Everybody wants to live a life of meaning and significance, but how to make those desires a reality is a question many of us struggle to answer. At the outset of a new year, we are exploring five decisions that have the power to fundamentally and functionally change the trajectory of your life. The first decision is based on a question from the Apostle Peter over 2000 years ago when he asked, “To whom shall we go?” We choose to follow whatever we have chosen to trust. If it’s not Jesus, then who or what has the power to fulfill the deepest longings of the human heart?

01/13/2019

Difficulty. Adversity. Pain. Suffering. In a perfect world none of us would choose these, but as followers of Jesus, we do have an important choice to make: embrace the discomfort. Jesus promised that this life would be full of trials. Plus, if we would only trust Jesus, then He can use it all to work on us, in us, and through us for our good and His glory.

01/20/2019

What do you get when individuals, having entrusted their lives to Jesus and embraced the countercultural and counterintuitive lifestyle of a disciple, decide to come together? You get a movement, or as Jesus called it, “The Church.” The success of the movement Jesus started 2000 years ago will always be directly correlated to the level of commitment exercised by His followers. If you want to be part of something bigger than yourself in 2019, then make the decision to commit to more.

02/03/2019

What matters most? More to the point, what matters most to you? Jesus had an opinion on this question. He said, “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.” If the things that were most important to Jesus really matter to us, then we ought to have a way to know if we are moving in the right direction. In the final message of this series, we will unpack some very practical ways to make your life count, and help you make the fifth and final key decision: Measure what matters.