Month: April 2022

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What does it take for God to get your attention?  Is it when you hear the Word and it speaks so directly to what you are experiencing that you know it’s God?  Is it when your life circumstances don’t seem to fit anything that you planned for and surely it must be God stepping in?  Is it an experience of God so vivid in its’ closeness to you that it just had to be God?  Is it a still small voice, that only you can hear that is questioning, encouraging, and inviting you to live into the fullness of God in your life?

Saul’s had a conversion experience that woke him to new life in Christ leading him to serve.  Where are the places that we might find a conversion moment in our day to day life?  What is God seeking from you and how will you hear that call and live into it?  What are your breakthrough moments going to be?

-Pastor Carrie

“But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.” John 20:25 

Would you believe? Do you believe? I love how the gospel writers take us through the reactions of the disciples. So often the reaction is doubt. Nobody jumps immediately to belief. It takes time for each of them to get there. Thomas is perhaps the most honest about his doubt. But Jesus works with each one of the disciples to breakthrough their doubt so they may come to believe. Doesn’t Jesus do the same for us? 

-Pastor Travis Norton

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“Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.” Luke 24:10-11 

Can you imagine being one of these women? You’ve just witnessed the most amazing thing in the world, the resurrection of Jesus, and you can’t get the other disciples to believe you. You come running with the best news the world has ever heard and they think you’re making it up. “These words seemed to them an idle tale.” Why is it so hard to believe good news? Oof, that’s the question isn’t it, even for today. We are so used to bad news. We are so used to miracles not happening. Can we even allow for something like the resurrection to change our minds? But these women never stopped telling their story. And Jesus backed them up so that the lives to the disciples were changed. The story keeps changing lives. Our lives have been changed by the miracles of the resurrection. Now it’s our turn to be like the women and tell the world of the miracle so they might come to believe too.

-Pastor Travis Norton

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“go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find there a colt that has never been ridden.” Luke 19:30 

This is intentional. This entrance into Jerusalem is carefully crafted and thought through. Think of how a candidate introduces themselves when they launch a campaign. The background, the city, the music, all of it is carefully selected to project a very intentional image. Look at Luke 19, how much time is spent on the instructions and execution of getting the colt. Jesus intends to come into Jerusalem in the same way as a conquering king would after defeating the enemy. And the people welcome him as a king. But what kind of King will Jesus be?

-Pastor Travis Norton

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