Speaker: Heath McCoy

When a crowd comes together, great things can happen. For a crowd to come together, though, we need to strive for unity with others. In this first message of this series, we look at the early church and how they were reminded be unified against one enemy, as one neighbor, and working with one purpose.

Unfinished feels exhausting. There’s always something more to fix, to do, to change. This Easter, as we remember Jesus’s crucifixion, take heart and remember His words: “It is finished.”

The moments on Sunday don’t last for the week. If you want to change your week, change your perspective on Sunday.

We’ve all got a “there;” a place or thing we want to get to. We make plans of how to get from “here” to “there,” but God does things differently than we do. His plan might be longer and take more time than what we want, but we can also extend that journey with our own disobedience.

Do you have a flexible faith? When we’re flexible with our faith, we will be at peace with God, make the most of every opportunity, and prioritize our purpose in whatever situation or circumstance we find ourselves in. Even in a season of being “scattered” and surrounded by chaos, God can and will work in us and our lives.

A lot of the questions we ask stem from a place of insecurity. Am I enough? Where do I belong? What am I here to do? We exaggerate and use our insecurities as excuses to avoid what God has asked us to do, but God wants to be our confidence, strength, and the answer to all our questions.

Today matters. What we do today affects tomorrow, so we should strive to make the most of every moment. However, if we’re distracted we cannot engage with what God is doing today. We need to continually surrender our “stuff” to God, otherwise we will miss out on what He wants to do in our lives today.

Uncertainty is the greatest hinderance to our movement. When we feel lost or confused, things don’t go as planned, or the next steps to take are unclear or uncertain, we stop moving. We need to be careful of what we see and hear, and lift our predicament to the level of God’s promises to get a better perspective. The “perfect time” to move is not a matter of precision, but rather a declaration of submission to God’s plan.

In every season there’s a reason to be grateful. We need to retrain the way our brain thinks about being grateful – we need to make gratitude a way of thinking, not a reason or response.