God’s Top 10 Life Hacks

     This coming Sunday we will start a new sermon series, God’s Top 10 Life Hacks. We are going to look at the most important rules for living in Western history—The Ten Commandments. Rather than thinking of them as onerous commands, we will try and understand these instructions from God’s perspective.

The Jesus Guilt Cure

 When I was in seminary, I remember reading a psychologist who said that guilt is healthy if it lasts no more than five minutes or results in a change of behavior.  I put the book down and thought: “Lord, my life is nothing but an onion with layer upon layer of unhealthy guilt.”

Bible Summary That Works

    I shared a bookmark in your bulletins yesterday. Here is another list that provided some inspiration for me in creating that bookmark...

Blessed are the Meek,
The Last shall be first,
Walk Humbly with Your God, etc.

      This last Sunday we focused on how we go about discerning God’s purpose and plan for our lives.  The conclusion I drew, in reflection on the scriptures, was that finding our place in this world and fulfilling our potential requires living with one eye on Jesus Christ and the other eye looking forward.