Represent

Today I want to talk about a small glimpse of our identity in God, and responsibility as a Christian. This topic transcends age. No matter how old or young you are, this includes you! Remember, when we come to Christ, realize our need for him, die to self, and rise in him we are completely new. We are saved from our sin, washed clean of it, and God remembers it no more. We now live a life in the light of His grace, but this doesn’t mean we keep sinning. Let’s dig a little deeper into Philippians and 2 Corinthians and see what I mean...

Identity Sermon

It's been a while since I've written, but here is a message I preached recently. Hope you enjoy!



May God encourage you beloved.

You Can't Resist This!

How are you all today? It's always been a while when I write, but I was reading something that just hit the spot today. I hope it helps you too! Flip to Acts 13 and let's dive in!

"The following Sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the message of the Lord. But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to oppose what Paul was saying by insulting him. Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles! For this is what the Lord has commanded us: I have made you a light for the Gentiles to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 13:44-47 HCSB)

As I read this today I realized that God is in the verge of something in our day! He wants His message, His word shared just like the days of old! He's raising up Paul, He's raising up Barnabas. Don't hesitate if that's you, the one to preach! But do be warned! This task doesn't come with out resistance.

The resistance not only will come from the world, but as we see that even the religious will be jealous for your influence. We know this influence is God, not us! 

Spend time reflecting, are you someone God is calling and you just let the phone ring to voicemail? Are you someone who fears the persecution? Or is God more important than all of this? I want I be like these disciples in this story! As people turn them away, and people incite others against them, they respond:

"And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit." (Acts 13:52 HCSB)

God, I ask that today we wouldn't shrink back this Easter season! I ask you empower us to run with you, for you, and not fear! Help us rejoice and please send us more of you presence, your Holy Spirit!

Who are you in this story? The religious or the true disciples?

Will you answer the call today?

I love you beloved!

What Happens When You Give Jesus Your Lunch

You ever have one of those moments where you simply tell God that you can't do what He's asking you to? In our dive into Mark this week, we are goings to look at a story that hopefully changes that perspective! Mark 6 is where we will start, and get ready for some crazy awesome stuff to go down!

People have been following Jesus for a while now and there are thousands of them. Jesus decides to cross the body of water they are by so he can rest and pray with His disciples. This massive crowd runs along the side of the bank and meets them in the spot where they are docking the boat...  


So at this point, it seems nothing is going to plan and with it getting late the disciples think the people should go home and get food, they must be hungry. Then Jesus says something crazy!

“You give them something to eat,” He responded. They said to Him, “Should we go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat? ” Mark 6:37

That eight months wages worth of food! That's a lot of money!

"And He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look.” When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.” Mark 6:38

"One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him, “There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish — but what are they for so many? ” John 6:8-9

Between these two telling a of the story, we find Jesus instructs them to find bread and fish. With this massive crowd, we come to find that a little boy is the only one with food, and all he has is 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. 

"I wonder how big the fish were!" You may ask. If a little boy had them, I'm assuming nothing big enough to feed this whole crowd.

So get this, Jesus blessed the food, cuts it up, and asks His disciples to pass it out! This is what the Bible says next.

"Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish. Now those who ate the loaves were 5,000 men." Mark 6:42-44

Some of you today feel like sometimes God has things for you that are just way to hard. Or, you don't know enough about Him, His word, faith, ect.. On this day, a little boy showed up with a dinner sized meal for himself, he gave it to Jesus when He asked of it, and Jesus fed thousands of people with it! 

Jesus has the ability to take "the little" you have and, when He wants it, feed people abundantly with it to where they are overly full! Jesus never asks us to be ready to do his work, He asks you to be willing.

What's your five loaves an two fish?

When Jesus asks for your "little" will you give it to Him in faith?

I pray your faith is multiplied Beloved!

Persecution Has Never Felt So Good!

I normally only write on here once a week, but I feel prodded to write again today. Lets take a step back from our dive into Mark and go back to the Old Testament for today's truth! This is a common Sunday school story, but I hope to bring it into the light again with some new insight to some! Flip your Bible open to Daniel 3! 

Authoritative Aftermath!

As we dive into scripture this week, let me tell you how caught off guard I was by this weeks revelation! As I write these blogs, I tend to write something that has a lot to do with what was taught at our Thursday Bible study, but this truth was too good to pass up. Most people tend to look at this section of Mark 6 and focus on how this chapter tries to compare the kingship of Jesus and Herod. We, however, have a whole new thing to think about!

The 70 people I hope to be!

Today I’m excited to talk about a part of the Gospel we sometimes tend to forget about! I love how Scripture can rekindle spiritual fires and how it can truly be a reflection of a person’s heart. Let’s look into Mark 6 and see what we look like today!...

The Wave Fearing Fishermen Wakes The Sleeping Carpenter!

Happy 4th of July! Thank God for freedom! This week we continue our dive through the book of Mark and I'm excited to ask some hard questions. Lets dive right into Mark 4...