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What does it mean to do mercy?

Prodigal derives from Latin as “wasteful, to drive forth or away’ to waste, squander. It is one who spends or gives lavishly and foolishly - one who has returned after an absence. The story of the prodigal son is a picture of God's love for his children.

Who taught you what life was about? Mentor? Teacher? Parent?

Jesus forgives us and seeks to restore us.

Have you had a mountaintop experience and then your world came crashing down?

Zarephath, which means "to melt/smelt" or "crucible", was a place for further refinement for Elijah in preparation of his public ministry.

God will provide. We need only trust in Him.

There’s a difference between standard of living and quality of life. How can we create financial breathing room?

Does your relationship with Jesus Christ wither due to an overloaded schedule?

In your attempt to get the most out of life, don’t lose control of your life

As we begin a new year, let’s leave enough margin and space for rest.

Kids bring joy all year long including in the Christmas story. But in a world full of darkness and difficulty, we need more than a baby in a manger.

As we look beyond a simple reading of the events surrounding Jesus’ birth, we see there was much more than a peaceful nativity scenes and serene Hallmark cards.

There will always be people who disagree with you. Are you in a place where you accept that will and can still have relationships with them?

God uses common people to do uncommon things.

We worship when we reflect the image of God in how we live out our lives.

How we worship matters. So, how do we worship?

Worship is a response to God's revelation. But when do we worship?

Everybody worships. What is it? How is it for? And why does it matter?

Stand Sunday is a call to the church to stand together so that no child or family in foster care has to stand alone.

How we live our life matters, because we have hope and, because others need hope.

Why be good? What's the big deal with how e live our lives? Why does hope matter? Why does how we live matter?

Being a disciple is to be a follower of something, so discipleship is to point people toward that which you follow.

If we want to experience the transformational community we were created for, we need to trade all this striving for something else.

What keeps me clinging ever so tightly to independence? I do – whether out of prideful self-reliance, fear or something else – I can be the biggest obstacle to what Jesus has for me.

To experience the community we were created for, we must be willing to trade some old habits and behaviors for new ones.

Baptism is something we do, it’s something rather important, but we don’t talk about it very much.

Grace Fishers is for families! We are a spiritual family committed to loving one another as Jesus loves us.

God has been faithful to us over this last year as we launched independently. We take a look back at all that has happened at Grace Fishers over the past year.

It’s easy to be critical of the Church and focus on what’s wrong with her (and rightly so at times), but let’s look at what Jesus had to say about His Church.

The Gospel is for everyone who fears and believes in Jesus Christ.

God wants to remind you today that He is fighting your battles.

His forgiveness of us is the foundation stone. Our forgiveness of each other will build the church.

Communion is not simply a transfer, it’s a trade. It's an important spiritual practice and Christian tradition.

If you want to show people the love of Jesus, help them, don’t hurt them.

What kept Judas, who spent so much time with Jesus, from accepting who Jesus was? What keeps us from surrendering our lives to Him?

While we love stories of dramatic transformation, most of our transformation takes place over the long haul. But sometimes the change is invisible, and those stories are easy to miss.

Transformation takes place through faith and trust in Jesus. During your spiritual journey, you'll face challenges, but they'll change your relationship with Jesus.

Whatever your situation is, my invitation today is to trust in God for the bigger picture. Whatever happens, remember how powerful God is.

The pull of this world, with all its opportunities, responsibilities and promises, is so strong and insidious, only lives, hearts, minds and imaginations, formed by Jesus will prevail in this life and the next

Jesus is the true king, and don’t drift away from him, hold tight. But that leads us to a logical question - ok, if I’m not going to drift, I’ll hold tight to Jesus. But how?

The pull of this world is so strong and insidious, we will drift if we are not rooted in Jesus.

We are surrounded by cultural realities and pressures, local, nationally, and globally, that tend to draw us away from trusting in Jesus. How do we resist the pull of the world around us to focus on Jesus?

What did Jesus come to do which is closely connected with the question "Who is Jesus?"? Jesus came to create a serving revolution.

Jesus came to create a purposeful community marked by love and power. What did Jesus come to do? Who is Jesus?

Jesus came to give us life through relationship with Him. Do you believe Jesus knows your name? Do you think its possible to have a relationship with Him?

Jesus was determined to give people more than what they or anyone else was asking for. He has done more than heal them, He has given them New Life.

Jesus found in the 5th chapter of the Gospel of Mark and these moments were Jesus met 3 very different and very needy people who, once they meet Jesus, are all given what they can only be described as New Life.

Mark shows us that Jesus’ intension was singular, whether a person was a Jew or a Gentile: to bring freedom to those who are under oppression. Jesus is someone who desires to see everyone living freely and peacefully with dignity and purpose and he will take on the forces of hell to see that this gets done.

When the spirit of God is at work in your life, it gives you the ability to respond and not react in temporary moments.

We’re no better than our response but our response can make it better.

When things are hard, how can we be better because of what we've just experienced?

Who needs Christmas?, is so important. And though we’ve come at the question from a different angle each week, we’ve basically returned to the same answer – we all need Christmas. People needed it then and still need it today.

This series is purposed to tell us the greater reasons for celebrating Christmas. Or maybe, a better way to say it is this: this series is about the ways the coming of Jesus meets the deepest needs of our lives.

We need to move beyond Narratives about others to Names and New Beginnings.

The end of our hostility toward one another today is possible because of Jesus Christ.

With so many relationships strained, estranged and severed – it’s as good a time as ever to return to one of the most basic, life changing calls of Jesus: to love like Him.

The majority of people can't see how the work they do everyday is serving God or a higher purpose.

See our work as God sees our work and so engage our work with passion and purpose!

If we want to truly understand our identity, we need to make space to listen for the voice of God.

The lies we believe disrupt our lives unless we actively do battle with them.

God loves us even when we’re not being cute. It’s not about us performing or being delightful.

Understanding our unique identity as a child of God unlocks a life of wholeness and freedom.

Like instruction manuals, Jesus’ interactions with His disciples can serve as a manual of sorts – putting it all out there, so they’d know what to do.

We all have the tendency to look at someone in a judgmental way without ever knowing their story. Which brings us to another question Jesus asks that gives someone a chance to move out of one way of living and into another – closer to the heart of Jesus.

Jesus uses questions to address our fears and invite us into an incredibly deep level of faith and trust - even in the face of the worst life throws our way.

Jesus knew the power of a good question. That’s why He asked so many and still does.

You're invited on a journey as we launch the new Grace Fishers Church.

We’re invited into the family of God through adoption in Jesus Christ. We were called to live together and impact one another’s lives through living in community.