You cannot live – really live – until you love God. Love to live! And you cannot really love God unless that shows up in your loving of one another. God has given each of us the capacity to love. Vertical love is God before me. Horizontal love is you before me. But as with anything, the enemy has something else in mind.
Satan can’t create anything – he just takes the beautiful things that God has created – twists them and attempts to use them to destroy us. One such twisting is taking a love for God & others and converting it to “legalism.” Maybe you have been the recipient of a pointed finger or found yourself with the “three pointed back at you.”
In Vertical Living, God will take you to the mat with the full weight of all that He is. Watch and learn how to LOVE2LIVE2LOVE.
Love Gone Wrong
1 John 2:15-17
You cannot live – really live – until you love God. Love to live! And you cannot really love God unless that shows up in your loving of others.
In fact, the two are so closely interrelated that God is not interested in our expressions of love when we have hatred in our hearts toward another person – especially another one of His children, and most especially those of God’s family who are hardest of all to love.
In Vertical Living, God will take you to the mat with the full weight of all that He is… watch and learn how to LOVE2LIVE2LOVE.
Vertical Living | Introduction Part 1
Matthew 22:37-40
Conquering Insecurity Part 1
Exodus 4
God has a plan for every person – He wants to work for you, in you, and through you. But when God calls us to live out our purpose, we often encounter paralyzing insecurity… the awareness of the gap between who we want to be and who we actually are.
This week in Exodus 4, we return to Moses’ story, as God calls him to boldly follow. Though filled with flaws and failures, God teaches Moses (and us!) an important message about how to truly conquer that insecurity.
There are no enduring relationships without forgiveness.
If you think you have the right to withhold forgiveness it is because you have not properly calculated the debt of sin owed to a Holy God. Even when it’s hard… Even when it’s hurtful… Forgiven people forgive people. You might be surprised what Jesus said hangs in the balance when it comes to forgiveness.
Forgive without limit…THIS is what we do.
God’s house should be a beacon of unconditional love. Get rid of love substitutes and discover how truly unconditional love supercharges relationships.
Turning To God In A Crisis
5 More Exceedingly Great And Precious Promises
God Is Always Watching
Isaiah 43, 1 Corinthians 10, Titus 1
The Pivotal Piece
1 Corinthians 15
Without one pivotal piece, the entirety of Christianity comes tumbling down. Thankfully, there are many supporting details and truths surrounding this. Tune in as Pastor James preaches from 1 Corinthians 15 regarding the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
God Is Always Good
Psalm 27:13, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28