“An essential part of our theological and missional task today is to tell [the narrative of the gospel] as clearly as possible, and to allow it to subvert other ways of telling the story of the world.” — N.T. Wright

Christian maturity comes when we learn to start responding to God out of love and responsibility and not merely desperation.

Why are we as a culture — ore even more peculiarly, the church — so obsessed with only portraying our “best side” to even those supposedly closest to us?

This coming Sunday, September 29, we’ll be gathering as a church at Valley Vista Elementary School at 10 AM to help clean out their garden and get it ready for the school year.

“Perseverance is not the result of our determination, it is the result of God’s faithfulness. We survive in the way of faith not because we have extraordinary stamina but because God is righteous, because God sticks with us.”

The church must not only support and repair families but also find a way to become the family of God where everyone, married and single, childless or not, can flourish in love.

We must find peace and comfort in the reality that it is the Lord who causes good things to happen, not our efforts. Like Jesus said, ‘apart from him, we can do nothing.’ (cf. John 15:5)

Joy develops in the Christian way of discipleship by trusting and feeling good about what God has done — not what you have done!

How do you react when you or loved ones around you are treated harshly? What do you think when the world around you is in a state of chaos because of evil people that seem to prevail?