Claim Ownership2012 Chapel Video
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2012 Chapel Video
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In the Christmas story, God reached down to Zachariah, Mary and the shepherds with the same message – I hear your prayers and you are highly favored. Our heavenly father is involved not only in the grand scheme of things, but also in our personal story.
The most critical question is, “who then can be saved?” The answer is simply those who decide to follow Jesus; laying aside anything that has a grip on our heart.
In response to grace, we must move from merely believing to producing fruit. Christ’s death not only purchased our salvation, but serves as an example of how we are to respond laterally with love to our world.
We live in the tension of Christian consumerism vs. activism, but what Jesus wants is a relationship with us. God’s mission on this earth will end, this world will end, but God’s presence never ends.
Our Christianity is not based on what we do, but how we see. Our human attempts to control God are pointless and predicated on fear. Jesus Christ modeled the compassion and view of the world we need. God is with us.
Christ came to proclaim the joyous news to the humble, and exhorts us to life our lives beyond the prescribed lines into the realm of extraordinary. God comes out of heaven into us through his transforming grace, so life can be worth living and Christ is real.
Leadership is about big ideas, but leadership is also about small things, too. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Our heavenly father is waiting, ready and able to awaken our senses so we can look with His eyes, listen with His ears, and understand with His heart, but we have to invite Him to transform our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh.
God calls us to occupy the world until He returns, and He is building His kingdom. God is faithful to bring into completion the things He begins. We are to mix with humanity in order to take divinity into the nations. He is able to raise up a tomorrow as you give your life away.
A compelling message that Jesus Christ calls us to join him, and he is able to sustain us on the mission to which we are called. As we listen to the heartbeat of our heavenly Father we are assured of His sustaining power.
The story of grace is an ongoing story. We can experience the fresh waters of cleansing poured over us and remain wet from our experience with Christ. As we come with open hands and commit our lives anew, his grace continues to transform our lives.
God’s amazing grace is a seeking grace, a saving grace, a sanctifying grace, a sustaining grace, and a carrying grace. His grace is enough.
What is inside shapes every aspect of our lives. Christ communicates directly to the heart of the matter in the sermon on the mount and points us to the truth that change comes from the inside out through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Above all else, guard your heart. The only way we can change is through the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives changing our heart. Change happens from the inside out.
We do not have to be defined by our circumstances. To live is Christ, because we can choose to rise above the pain of our experiences.
The story of garden of Gethsemane, like the story of the Garden of Eden, reveals our nakedness. When faced with the challenge of discipleship, we all fail. We all run from the garden naked and ashamed. But Christ, in his grace, refused to allow our nakedness and brokenness to have the last word. So he redeems even the “naked man” in the garden.
The miracles in Mark almost always have to do with blindness, deafness, or muteness. The symbolism is that sometimes, even the most religious of persons, are blind, deaf, and dumb to the nature of the Christ’s kingdom. The only way to be healed is through prayerful connection to the heart of God.
The grace of God not only is at work in the darkest places in the world, but it also delivers people from the oppressive structures that are at work within us and outside of us.
Discovering God’s peace in the midst of the troubles and challenges of life.
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