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.
One of the defining crises of midlife is refusing to admit the truth to ourselves that we’re getting older.”
Building a relationship with God means that we have a lifelong opportunity to start over every day
God wants us to evaluate ourselves by how deep and strong our faith is. He doesn’t evaluate our spiritual condition by looking at how we appear on the surface. The depth of our faith determines how much of a difference we can make in the lives of those around us.
When we are insecure, it can be easy to feel like we are a “nobody going nowhere.”
Is your faith strong enough to inspire the next generation?
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.
When we experience testing, pain and failure in our lives, it is easy to give into fear and doubt. “Flipping the Switch” is about learning to let God use our personal passion, ambition, dreams, pain, and setbacks for his greater purpose of saving lives.
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?
Each of us was given a destiny. God chose our talents, our passions, our abilities, our strengths, and our weaknesses all before we were even born. Our destiny is not just about us.