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The people who were open or in touch with the reality of their need were drawn by Jesus's goodness, transformed by his power, and gathered up into the kingdom of God.

No one is beyond or beneath the saving, healing, and dignity-restoring compassion and power of Jesus. He is worth going All-In with.

Jesus is consistent in character and intent, both publicly and privately. He is worth trusting with our lives.

You are here on purpose for a purpose, but sometimes the noise around you is a distraction from the purpose God has for you.

Jesus uses his authority in ways that make him worth trusting with all our lives. Jesus's authority makes him worth trusting with our lives because he uses his authority to show what is true and good for life.

Jesus has authority over the spiritual and physical world and he puts it to use for good. We experience the blessing of it when we go all - in with him.

The Kingdom of God, in all that it represents, is worth going All-In on. Jesus invites each of us, all of us, to go All-in with him.

Jesus sees like no one else sees — including seeing the people (and potential in people) that no one else sees, seeing through the proud, and truly seeing our spiritual condition. What do you think Jesus sees when he looks at you? Are you willing to ask him?

God has gone All-In for the sake of rescuing humanity. We can trust that going All-In with God is worth it because God has already gone All-In for us.

God goes all in for us in Jesus. Go all in with Jesus who went all-in for us.

A life lived engaging our world for good is a life well-lived. We engage in response to all that we've received from God.

We will either spend our days trying to justify ourselves or we will receive God's justification of us in Jesus. So don't waste another minute of your life trying to justify yourself. Receive (and live out of) the gift of being justified by faith in Jesus

Tap into what God has already provided for your development as an Authentic Follower of Jesus. Sometimes the next step in growing as a follower of Jesus is to focus on the virtue/fruit of the Spirit we know we need a little bit more of.

Authentic followers of Jesus overflow with abundant life for them and others, so pursue life with Jesus.

Force Multipliers for Kingdom good is the vision not just for a few in our church, but for all of us . Each of us is part of how we're going to see this vision and each of its components come to fruition.

Connecting people to God and to each other, Developing many and more authentic followers of Jesus, Engaging our world for more and more good

God wants the people around us to experience life change and invites us to partner with him in bringing about those encounters

The Lord loves to move towards people to leave them forever changed. We're invited to prepare the way for him to meet us and others.

There might be some shame and self-doubt, but an encounter with Jesus is going to leave you forever changed. I want us to consider if there are any places of failure in our lives that are still hanging over us, weighing us down, causing some shame. Let Jesus meet you in that place today.

Falling (back) in love with some parts of your old life can keep you from the new life Christ has for you.

Jesus meets us, works in us and through us, even when our faith is weak .

Villains have become a focus in modern stories. God has always focused on villains, but He doesn't want to understand them, he wants to redeem them.

All of us experience barriers that keep make change feel impossible, but those barriers can't keep us from Jesus' life changing power.

Jesus sets us right so that we can make right the wrong we have done.

When Christ acts in our lives we have the freedom to be bold and share our stories.

If Jesus can bring freedom and defeat death in his resurrection, then we can say with confidence that Jesus has power and authority to bring freedom from whatever might oppress us.

We all hunger for something more in our lives, and God is the only one who can truly satisfy our hunger.

Read the Scriptures and do whatever you can to understand it. Then look for any opportunity to obey and do it.

Confession in nobody's favorite subject, but when we confess our sins, God is faithful to forgive us through the blood of Christ.

Is your misunderstanding about the character of God keeping you from experiencing the power and joy of confession?

God uses all kinds of circumstances to get our attention, but whatever He uses, our job is to be ready to stop and listen.

God hadn't forgotten Moses and God hasn't forgotten you. Be open to the signs of God. Move towards them when they come.

Jesus is never too busy to help us with those things that prevent us from being free and healed. He sees you.

Nobody wants crisis. All of us are going to experience it. So don't waste a crisis. Wasting a crisis is when it doesn't drive you to the one who is Lord over the crisis.

We may not be able to predict the timing of an encounter with the Spirit, but we can wait with expectancy.

When we obey the words of Jesus, it positions us for the Spirit to forever change us.

We all need to be changed, but sometimes we don't know what we need God to change. Even though Jesus knows what Bartimaeus needs, He still asks Bartimaeus what he wants Him to do. Jesus wants to change us as we follow Him.

What would make it worth not letting anything get in the way, pressing through any obstacle that might present itself, staying the course for as long as it took?

If encounters with other people have the potential to change the trajectory of our lives, then imagine what's possible when we encounter the maker of all reality, the one who loves us deeply. We could be forever changed.

Jesus has the power to heal: physically, spiritually, emotionally, relationally. Do you believe this?

Jesus says not to worry because we are more valuable than we know. Jesus' words are an invitation to freedom to live with a spirit of generosity.

Jesus puts this fork in the road: you can either build a life serving money that promises abundance but can ' t deliver it , actually enslaves us rather than frees us, and LOSE God who IS all abundance OR you can build a life serving God , power to free you from scarcity into abundance and get money and everything else thrown in.

God asks us to live generously out of the abundance He provides, and He knows generous living brings us freedom. It can be scary to live generously because the scarcity lie tells us there isn't enough, but that is a lie.

Sow sparingly, reap sparingly. Sow generously, reap generously!

We are often tempted to see abundance as a zero-sum game where abudance means having more than someone else. In Christ we can experience God as the source abundance, and we experience abundance as the more-than-enough that allows us to bless others.

God invites us out of the scarcity of of this world and into his abundance as we trust him by obeying him.

Easter is God's gift to a world trapped in scarcity, inviting us into His abundance.

HE is Risen Indeed! When we feel we are not enough, we can remember that Jesus is enough and He is risen!

As Christ followers Christians are called to follow the example of Jesus. One of the most challenging and rewarding things we should to is to serve others.

Serving is the (counterintuitive) path to blessing because it forms us in ways that nothing else can to become the people God created us to be.

In hurried and harried times like the ones we live in, where time is a precious commodity, lingering may not be something we often think about, let alone do with any degree of intentionality, but today might be a good day to revisit and reconsider that.