Finding Your Identity in God
WATCH Finding Your Identity in God | Exodus 3 Who do you know that identifies by their finances? Their high school sports career? Their addictions or failures? God has a far better view of our identity… especially when we are broken. Today we’ll jump right into Pastor James’ message, open your Bible to Exodus […]
Walk this Way
We exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory (1 Thessalonians 2:12, esv). Have you ever walked anywhere accidentally? I’m not asking if you’ve been on a walk and ended up somewhere unplanned. I mean, […]
Glimpses of Gold
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold (Job 23:10, ESV). Job knew suffering. This one man absorbed more pain than most of us ever have to imagine. In a single day, Job lost his wealth and all ten of his children. Then he […]
Game Changing Faith (with MLB Umpire Ted Barrett)
WATCH Game Changing Faith We were thrilled to welcome our dear friend Ted Barrett to speak to the men at Rock Bottom. Ted spent years working as an MLB umpire, he humorously told us, “Jesus loves umpires—because no one else does.“ His journey is truly inspiring, as he shares his path from salvation and learning […]
How to Handle an Internal Drought
And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail (Isaiah 58:11, esv). More than just the seat of emotions, your heart represents the immaterial part of you […]
The Father’s Song
“The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing” (Zephaniah 3:17, ESV). Permissive dads say, “Whatever you want.” That parenting style leaves deep, lingering wounds in children. For […]
For Better or Worse
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved (Psalm 55:22, esv). As much as we may wish for a day in this lifetime when everything negative finally clears and miraculously remains that way for all eternity, that day is not coming. As long […]
Don’t Look Back
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert” (Isaiah 43:18–19, esv). So much time is wasted by looking back. In the world around […]
How to Work with All Your Heart
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men” (Colossians 3:23, esv). One of the driving forces behind Western prosperity was the Protestant work ethic, which attributed value and virtue to hard work and self-discipline. Our society, though, continues to slip more toward entitlement—the belief that people deserve something for nothing. […]
Accepting Acceptance: Welcome Home
WATCH Accepting Acceptance: Welcome Home | 1 John 4:16 It’s time to move from putting off rejection to putting on acceptance. Because living in lasting victory is about more than what you’re not doing. It’s about what you are doing to replace it. Don’t miss this week’s powerful message from Pastor James, Accepting Acceptance: […]