Reflect God’s Compassion
Pastor Doug Dent
Compassion means sharing a “common passion” with God. It means caring about people as much as God does, and getting involved in God’s mission to the world. Compassion begins by reflecting on the unique value of every person, and by remembering the blindness, slavery and death that plague the human condition. Those convictions move us […]
Submit to God’s Providence
Pastor Doug Dent
Growing in the Christian life flows from a communion with Christ in which you love Jesus by savoring the depth of his love for you. “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). The more you see God’s love for you, the more you will grow in loving God. This is why the […]
Affirm God’s Grace- Part 2
Pastor Doug Dent
The more you see of God’s grace, the more marvelous and mysterious it will seem to you. As you are taken up with the wonder of His redeeming love in your life, you will discover a growing joy in your heart and a deepening desire to pursue a God-centered life. Grasping a compelling, biblical vision […]
Affirm God’s Grace- Part 1
Pastor Doug Dent
When we grasp this biblical teaching about the effects of sin of the human soul, it becomes obvious that grace must involve more than God passively providing the way of salvation. Grace must be about God stepping into and intervening in the lives of individuals to save them. By grace, God opens the door to […]
Believe God’s Word
Pastor Doug Dent
The short answer is, “Yes!” The Word of God is trustworthy and true, and at the same time it is beyond our comprehension! The Word of God must take pride of place in any God-centered life. God will nourish our spiritual lives through the private reading of God’s Word and the public hearing of God’s […]
Ask for God’s Help
Pastor Doug Dent
Some days it’s tough to pray. Some days we’re too tired, too worn out to pray. Or the words just won’t come. Or we’re angry or upset with God, and we don’t want to pray. Or all we can muster is a one-word prayer: Help! The story of Jonah is the story of a God-fearing […]
Receive God’s Provision
Pastor Doug Dent
When we finally understand that God is always at work, even in the midst of life’s storms, and when we commit our lives and our way to Jesus, we are on the way to living a more God-centered life. The words of 1 John 2:2 say it best: “[Jesus] is the atoning sacrifice for our […]
Embrace God’s Call
Pastor Doug Dent
When God interrupts our dreams and calls us to something new and different, it can be hard to take. A new call may disrupt our settled life, overturn our plans and dreams, and make us decidedly uncomfortable. But, as we see with Jonah, embracing God’s call inevitably leads to something better and bigger than we […]
Jonah: A Fish Tale
Pastor Doug Dent
Jonah’s confession maps out our battle and gives testimony to the patience, perseverance and ultimate triumph of God’s grace in the conflicted experience of a Christian disciple. Our journey with Jonah will help us to explore the dynamics of our own struggle with God. It will challenge our self-interest, and give us a fresh glimpse […]
Cosmic Elation
Pastor Doug Dent
The writers of Genesis lived in a world where people arranged their lives around a particular story, set in a particular time and place. It is not pure history or science, nor is it pure myth and fiction. It is the story they found themselves in; a story with two central characters: God and humanity. […]
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