Creating Your Dream Life

Transformation at the Heart Level “But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” I Samuel 16:7 Often our problem is we don’t like the sin in our lives and feel guilt and shame about it, yet we aren’t necessarily willing to do what it takes to address it.  I believe this ties God’s hands in a sense

Created for Intimacy We were made for intimacy.  When Jesus described the “greatest command” he said it was to: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”(Matt. 22:37-40)  The command has to do with the fact that whether or not we want to or not we live in relationship with both the God who created us and others who that

I Hope You Dance I heard New Testament scholar Scot McKnight speak at a conference a while back.  Then I learned about his book called, The Jesus Creed.  I haven’t finished reading it yet, but I did find this quote by Dr. McKnight that I thought was quite powerful: “Pentecost, the day on which we are indwelt by the Spirit, sweeps us up into the dance of the Trinity. We are summoned to the dance floor, [and] the music is grace and love and holiness and peace… The music is supp