Confronting Our Failures

Friend, when have you failed at something horribly before? What did you gain out of that experience? In our Western, victory-driven, and competitive culture, we are prone to avoid meditating on failure because it makes us feel bad. Even though we know we are human and all make mistakes. But if we fail to confront our mistakes and failures, we can’t learn and grow from them. When we fail but don’t become better as a result, then those failures are wasted. Therefore, failures are our greatest opportunities to learn and grow.

Lent: Independence vs. Dependence

 This Sunday, we will be going through Jesus' 40 days being tempted in the wilderness by Satan. Lent in the Old English means "to lengthen,” which we can interpret as lengthening our dependence on God while taking a sober inventory of the things we've replaced God with to try being independent. God reminds us that we can and are called as his children to depend on him as our Father in heaven.

Matthew 4:1-11

Lent: Shadow & Substance

We live in a world of contradictions. We are spiritual beings in earthly bodies. We are loving creatures in a hateful world. We are designed for relationships but religiosity surrounds us. What do we do with all this tension? We are called to be people of substance yet we are surrounded by shadows. Well, God calls us not to shy away from the shadows but to enter into it. In fact, God calls His people to enter into the tension that is this world, to not ignore or run away from the contradictions but to live in it and to be a light in the darkness.
Join us on Sunday March 19 as we explore what it means to live in the shadows as people of substance.

Colossians 2:16-23