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What If Jesus Doesn't Do What You Expected?
by John Erickson on October 14th, 2024
When life does not match your expectations, where is your hope? Mark 8 and Acts 1 invite us to follow Jesus beyond our preferred outcomes.  Read More
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How Do You Keep Going When Everything Pushes Back?Can Grace Change How You Treat Someone Who Owes You?What Should You Do When You've Really Messed Up?Does Being Disliked Mean You're Being Persecuted?
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Can’t Quiet Your Mind? A Gentle Way to Begin Christian MeditationDon’t Know How to Pray? You’re Allowed to Start SmallCan I Be Angry With God? What Lamentations Teaches Us About Honest PrayerTired of Pretending You’re Fine? Psalm 120 Offers a Place to Begin
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Where Do You Draw the Line When Everyone Else Is Going Along?Does God Still Heal People? And What About When He Doesn't?Why Does God Keep Rescuing People Who Keep Wandering?What If Your Spiritual Gift Is Doing the Dishes?
 August
Can You Flourish When Life Seems to Be Going Backward?What If Meekness Is Strength, Not Weakness?Are You Sorry You Sinned—or Just Sorry You Got Caught?What If Rest Is Supposed to Be Enjoyable?Can Christians Disagree Without Dividing?
 September
How Would God Describe Himself?What If Church Is More Than a Sermon and Some Songs?Be Strong and Courageous—But What If You’re Still Afraid?Are You Trying to Grow Spiritual Fruit the Wrong Way?
 October
Do You Know God—or Just Know the Right Words? Jephthah’s Warning About FaithWho Makes Your Blood Boil? What Jonah Teaches Us About Loving Our EnemiesIs That God or Just Me? Learning to Recognize God’s Voice
 2025
 January
What Does It Mean to Love Someone Without Faking It?Whose Kingdom Are You Actually Living For?Is Following Jesus Something You Do Alone?What If God Is Leading You Somewhere You've Never Been?
 February
What Kind of Soil Is Your Heart Becoming?What Do You Do When the Problem Is Bigger Than You?What Does Real Christian Community Look Like When People Are Difficult?What Does It Mean That God Is Our Healer?
 March
What If Jesus Is Sending You Instead of Giving You the Answer?How Do You Return to God When You've Drifted Away?What Does God's Kingdom Actually Look Like?What Do You Do When God's Answer Makes No Sense?Why Is Showing Mercy So Much Harder Than Receiving It?
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Can God Use Someone Who Feels Completely Ordinary?What Does It Really Mean to Worship God?What Does It Mean That God's Love Is Steadfast?Are All of God's Promises Really for You?
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 June
Can You Have Peace Before Anything Around You Changes?What If Hearing From God Is Less Complicated Than You Think?Why Does Everything You Chase Stop Satisfying You?What Does It Mean to Be Pure in Heart When You Know You're Not?What Does It Mean That God Is Gracious?
 July
Why You Can't Flourish All by YourselfCan God Restore a Relationship That Seems Beyond Repair?Is Generosity a Gift—or Something Every Christian Should Practice?Can You Pray the Right Words and Still Miss God’s Heart?
 August
Does Prophecy Have to Be Weird to Be Real?Who Is Leading You Through the Valley?Does Your Past Disqualify You From What God Wants to Do Next?Why Does It Matter That God Has a Name?
 September
Are You Making Peace—or Just Avoiding Conflict?Why Is It So Much Easier to See Everyone Else's Sin?Why You Need a Sabbath—Especially When You're Too BusyWhat Matters More in a Leader: Character or Talent?Can You Believe in God and Still Have Serious Doubts?
 October
Who Was Mary Magdalene, Really?Can God Breathe Life into What Feels Completely Dead?Does Forgiveness Mean Pretending It Didn't Hurt?Are You Trying to Carry a Life That Was Meant to Be Shared?
 November
What If God Is Pruning Something Good Out of Your Life?What Are You Rallying Around When Life Gets Hard?How Do You Actually Practice Sabbath When Life Is Crazy?What Does It Really Mean to Be a Godly Man or Woman?
 December
Speaking in Tongues: Can We Talk About It Without Making It Weird?Can You Be Religious and Still Miss God's Heart?Why Get Baptized If Baptism Doesn't Save You?Is God Really Pursuing You Even When You're Running Away?What Would It Look Like for a Church to Be Known for Grace?
 2024
 June
What If Feeling Weak Is Exactly Where Jesus Meets You?What Does It Mean to Walk in the Light When You Still Sin?What If Jesus Is Asking You to Step Out of the Boat?Can We Talk About Money Without Making It Weird?
 July
What Are We Really Praying When We Say “Your Kingdom Come”?What If Love Is the Language Christians Are Supposed to Speak?

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