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  • The Spirit of Love and Family  1

    The Spirit of Love and Family 

    How do I start to value connection over perfection?

  • Peace, Joy, and Love  2

    Peace, Joy, and Love 

    Three ways our lives change when we read the Bible.

  • Guilt, Grace, and God 3

    Guilt, Grace, and God

    How to unlearn what we think we know so we can find freedom and forgiveness

  • Am I Seeking Attention or Seeking God? 4

    Am I Seeking Attention or Seeking God?

    Eight signs of attention-seeking and how to break free from it.

  • Are You Living for Your Pride or Living for Your Purpose? 5

    Are You Living for Your Pride or Living for Your Purpose?

    The question is not whether we have a sense of divine purpose, but how we’re trying to satisfy it.

  • 4 Habits to Build if You Want Good Friendships, According to the Bible 6

    4 Habits to Build if You Want Good Friendships, According to the Bible

    The Bible is full of people who have learned from God how to be friends that understand, connect with, admire, challenge, and love each other.

  • Silencing the Crowd: Getting Past Our Preoccupation with People to Find Jesus  7

    Silencing the Crowd: Getting Past Our Preoccupation with People to Find Jesus 

    Let’s look at how we can calm our people-pleasing, quiet our people-focus, and silence our drive to rely on ourselves so we can find Jesus’ purpose for our lives. 

  • The Parable of the Good Samaritan: Heart, Not Habit 8

    The Parable of the Good Samaritan: Heart, Not Habit

    When we love God with all of our hearts, we will have the capacity to love people wholeheartedly and live out the exciting destiny God has for each of us.

  • The Rich Young Ruler: How to Stop Seeing Rules and Start Seeing Relationship 9

    The Rich Young Ruler: How to Stop Seeing Rules and Start Seeing Relationship

    Jesus loved the rich young ruler enough to offer him a way out of rule-following by asking him to make a decision to be close to him.

  • Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector: God Is Real When We Are Real 10

    Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector: God Is Real When We Are Real

    Because God has unlimited mercy, we can feel confident that anything we bring up to him will be met with compassion, understanding, and forgiveness.

  • Parable of the Lost Coin: You Never Lose Your Value to God 11

    Parable of the Lost Coin: You Never Lose Your Value to God

    This parable will help us understand what it feels like to be lost and how God responds to that feeling by always trying to bring us home. 

  • In a World Full of Darkness, Here’s How You Can Be the Light 12

    In a World Full of Darkness, Here’s How You Can Be the Light

    But how do we become a light that shines brightly before others? The first step is making sure we choose not to live in darkness ourselves.