How is our identity as a group of believers, defined by how we gather together, encourage one another and celebrate together. We need each other and we cannot walk in faith without fellow believers. How can we walk together and bring encouragement and celebration to each others lives?

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