What is your spiritual foundation?

When things get tough do we run to God and rely on his loving mercy, grace, and kindness to rest our souls? Or do we run and allow ourselves to be beaten up by our hurts and hardships?

After reading a Proverb Alan reflects on the difference between having a dream and dwelling on a fantasy. With a dream you put action and preparation behind it. With a fantasy you merely hold on to an lofty ideal. How can you dream big and take steps toward the goal?

Sometimes we feel stuck and we don’t know what will happen next. As we approach Easter Sunday, Chris encourages us to remember that God is not done yet. As we seek God and ask for him to work in and through us, we will see God move and experience life in a new way.

Chris reflects on Good Friday and on how far God was willing to go to restore to relationship with us, and also how the story doesn’t end on the cross. Our God is a god of resurrection, of new life. How can we be a people of the resurrection as we reflect on all that he has done?

Dave has an interesting relationship with the book of James. He loves its content but wrestles with its delivery. Through James 4:8-10 Dave challenges us to humble ourselves and draw near to God.

God does not ask for lavish offerings and expensive gifts. He desires to have us bring our unadorned praise to him and to sing and dance for joy out of our love for who he is and what he has done. How will your lift up your praise to him today?

As we approach Easter, Mark invites us to look forward to remember what Jesus has done for us. To remember that it is he that restores and renews us, and who washes us clean.

Isaiah 1:18

Sometimes we close our eyes because we don’t want to we see things as they are. Sometimes we close our eyes because we don’t want to face something challenging. We need to ask ourselves if we want to see things as Jesus does, and if we do we need to come to him. To ask him to give us his sight, and to give us his heart so that once we see things as he does we can then act in a manner that reveals who he is.

We all desire to see justice for the oppressed and to see things set right. Christians are called to seek justice, pursue justice, and love justice. This is because we serve a just God. So we need to be agents of justice by seeking to set things right. To help those in need, rescue those in trouble, and heal broken hearts.

Proverbs 21:15

Dave shares an original song based from Hebrews 11:6.