Tree Of Life

Despondency is a feeling of being downcast, disheartened, and hopeless. It leads to spiritual death. But hope in Christ overcomes it.

Apathy (sloth) moves too slow and too fast. It welcomes distraction. But the real devastation is that it permits the devil to plunder our riches in Christ.

Anger is an impatience aroused by thwarted desire. Which means it isn't only an outburst, but also an inner resentment and agitation. Anger within the church gives place to the devil.

Greed blinds us to the spiritual world and binds us to the material world. Only contentment in Christ can cure us of this unnatural passion.

Lust is a disordered and diminished desire for our union with beauty. And this applies to more than sex!

Also known as the Seven Deadly Sins, the passions are thoughts that enter the cracks in our hearts and disfigure us. The first is gluttony. Gluttony is not about how much we eat, but why we eat.

The final message in our prayer series. Where does prayer lead us? What does prayer do for us and our world?

The shape of our prayer becomes the shape of our soul. So how to we structure our prayers? Thanksgiving, confession, and intercession are heightened in the Psalms as sacrifice. Here's how to use them.

Posture is often an overlooked aspect of prayer. This message examines our internal and external postures.

How do we fill rather than kill our time in prayer? Pray the Lord's Prayer. Pray the Psalms. Pray Scripture. And pray for your needs.

When do we pray? The message looks at the examples of Jesus at morning and evening prayer.

Prayer is communion with God, becoming one with Him. As we pray, He indwells us and we indwell Him. Becoming All Fire is a series on prayer. During the season of Epiphany, we want the manifestation of Christ in our lives. Prayer is one of the means of acquiring the manifestation.

In our final Christmas service, we remember that though light has come through Christ, darkness will remain until His second coming. We have a lot of prayer and work to do.

The Sunday after Christmas we celebrate the Sunday of the Kings and join them in worshiping Christ.

Christmas Sunday! Christ was not born so we could be nice, but so we could become sons and daughters of God.

How do we wait through suffering? This Advent, we wait for Christ with the Apostle Paul's "Trustworthy" sayings.

This Advent, as we await the coming of Christ, we need trustworthy words to wait by. These dependable words come from Paul's phrase: "the saint is trustworthy."

This Advent, as we await the coming of Christ, we need trustworthy words to wait by. These dependable words come from Paul's phrase "the saying is trustworthy."

Psalm 104 is considered one of the most beautiful Psalms, portraying God not only as powerful creator, but also as intimate sustainer. Thanksgiving is the response we were created to give.

Our final saint in The Great Cloud of Witness series lived an extraordinarily blessed life. But "blessed" in the biblical sense may not look the way we expect it to.