God Is the Strength of My Heart

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God Is the Strength of My Heart

August 6, 2023 • Gerrit Dawson • Psalm 73:1–5, Psalm 73:13–26

These days, a powerful idea gets marketed to us from all sides. It’s the dream that I can hold my whole life in my hands and get everything arranged according to my truest self. I can live my dreams. I can express my truest self, and everyone will recognize it and give me space and I will be fulfilled in myself. I don’t need God or anyone if I can just grasp myself, and then be myself. I can do it, if I believe enough in myself and work hard enough and carve out my space.

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It’s Really Us. It’s Just Us!

October 13, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Hebrews 13:7, 2 Corinthians 9:6–8, 2 Corinthians 9:11–15

Paul expresses several times a joyful loop of giving in Corinthians. God gave his only Son to the world in Jesus Christ. Believers receive that gift of mercy with our whole hearts. We give thanks for such grace. At the very same time that we do, we get sent into ministry. God gives. We give. And then the recipients give thanks back to God for the love and salvation we shared. God gets glorified. Then, he pours out more grace into us and through us to others, and the loop of love and praise continues like a wonderful music.

The Reflections of Mary Magdalene

August 4, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Psalm 139:7–12, Isaiah 43:1–2, Isaiah 43:4–5, John 20:11–16, Isaiah 43:1

Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

July 28, 2024 • Colton Underwood • Acts 15:36–41

If God can restore to us the years the locusts have eaten, if he can make the barren woman the mother of many children, if he can bring dead hearts back to life, he can take the broken pieces and make you whole. That doesn’t mean it won’t hurt or that you’re less of a Christian because it does hurt. Rather, it gives meaning to the hurt. It gives eternal perspective even on the worst we could do. In Christ, even our deepest divisions are redeemable. Only look to him who has promised to make all things new.