Our Pentecost series continues exploring the question “What does it mean to dream big?” Today’s answer Part 4: “Make Your Life Count“. Key ideas and scriptures from today’s podcast. To make your life count I shared these personal goals.  Feel free to adapt for your own versions. 1 . A life goal to hear the [...]

What does it mean to dream big? Key ideas and scriptures from today’s podcast. One implication of the Spirit filling us at Pentecost is to be re-ignited for the purposes of God. His Holy Spirit empowers us to dream big. What does it mean to dream big? We have to believe in faith that God [...]

What does it mean to dream big? Key ideas and scriptures from today’s podcast. 1. Dream God’s dream. We can do that in the natural with our own human imagination, but the Spirit-filled man or woman dreams in alignment and congruence with God’s dream. 2. What is God’s dream? Let’s consider two aspects of what [...]

“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.” Acts 2:17 Key ideas and scriptures from today’s podcast. 1. The Holy Spirit reignites our God-designed purpose. At Pentecost, we remember and consider [...]

“When Jesus got out of the boat, and saw the great crowd, He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.” Mark 6:34 The word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God. By this chapter in the story of Jesus, [...]

“In prayer there is a connection between what God does and what you do.  If you forgive other people when they sin against you – willfully and recklessly, then your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you refuse to do your part, nurturing your hurt and anger, your Father will not forgive your [...]

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you [...]

“Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 so that you do [...]

This is the episode for Ash Wednesday as we begin a new season in the Christian year calendar, the season of Lent. Reading from Romans 12 verse 2. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve [...]

John 1:43-51 43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Come, follow me.” 44 Philip was from Bethsaida, which was the hometown of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip went to look for Nathanael and told him, “We have found the very person Moses and the prophets [...]