The question is not whether we have a sense of divine purpose, but how we’re trying to satisfy it.
God wants us to both have our own happy and satisfying life and to help others have an opportunity for that life, too.
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.
Everyone can become a spiritual leader, but it begins with the decision to allow God to make you into one.
When we are insecure, it can be easy to feel like we are a “nobody going nowhere.”
There is no doubt that this world is changing, but it is up to each of us to decide and influence how it changes.
With insecurity, God never responds with criticism. He responds with a purpose to live for something beyond themselves.
Jesus had a mission! Everything he did in his life fit into the mission God had for him. Do you know your mission? Jesus accomplished his mission. Are you accomplishing that mission?
We are living in a time of fear-inducing chaos, when darkness is rising. We must embrace our responsibility to God and our neighbors to bring the light.
Conquer is a word descriptive of but rarely used to define Jesus. It means “to defeat an enemy, or take control or possession of a foreign land.” In this sense, Jesus comes as the light to conquer a world filled with darkness.