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The Year of Purpose

I love the feeling of going into a new year. It’s the chance for new beginnings, a fresh start to hit the reset button. It’s so easy to be full of hope and excitement the first month in, and then the newness wears off and life kicks back in to full gear. What if instead of resolutions filled in earthly goals we focus on the heavenly ones. The ones where we receive the ultimate fulfilment. The one that sustains us above anything. I have had the feeling of defeat kick in all too soon on some resolutions, but I have realized that the goals I had were to me focused and not enough He focused. “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for they are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.” Galatians 5:16-18 He has a purpose for your…

House of Love

Yesterday started off the season of Advent when we get to expectantly await to celebrate the birth of Jesus and the second coming of Christ. I feel like Advent is the perfect time to discuss this topic of community. Sometimes I feel like people get so caught up in the manmade laws of the church that they forget Jesus’ words in the Bible. The Bible is the guide book for how our Father wants us to live our lives for Him. Lately I could feel God really putting this on my heart. Church communities can be a blessing but they also have some people sprinkled in that suck the love Jesus tells us to share right out of the air. I have experienced this more so growing up and I know many people who have experienced this same thing. If you are one of these people this one is for you. God has called us to be in community with others, that’s how we grow and learn in our faith. I know there have been things said to people, and they have walked away from church and not come back; it hurts me so much to see…