Desires for Design: God designed us to do life in a certain way, but He gives the decision whether or not to do so to us. When we choose our desires and abandon God and His design, we miss out on the fullness of life God has for us.

Tune in to Week Three of Lean In - Vol. 2 here as Pastor Skyler touches on Romans 1:26-32

God gave us His creation so we could know Him. Yet, instead of worshiping the Creator, Paul writes in Romans that people worshiped “idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.” How do we do this today? And how can we stop?

Tune in to Week Two of Lean In - Vol.2 here as Pastor Skyler unpacks Romans 1:25-26!

Starting off strong is just the beginning... continuing to be intentional is where lasting change is found. Pursing Jesus as the primary purpose of our life, will bring us to crossroads of decisions. Places where we willingly trade God’s best for our idea of better. But, we will discover, it always worth the trade!

The promise of the good life in Jesus, is a promise of a life of victory. If God is for us, who can be against us? The one who defeated death calls us His- we have nothing to fear. As we conclude this series, our commitment is to live confident, believing that His victory really is ours and that whatever this life throws our way, we won’t be overthrown. Jesus loves us, fights for us, and He has invited us to claim His victory. He is walking with us along a good path of His love, and because of Jesus, nothing can separate us from this love that brings us home.

Check out Week Seven of The Good Life here as Andy Kaufman unpacks Romans 8:35-39!

In the midst of suffering, weakness, and enemies, Paul’s desire is that we would know that God is for us and with us. God has not abandoned us in this life to fend for ourselves, He is protecting and interceding for us. There is nothing that can separate us from His love that provides and protects and His invitation is that we can experience His goodness in the midst of whatever we face. 

Check out Week Six of The Good Life as Pastor Skyler unpacks Romans 8:31-34!

We have a real enemy seeking to discourage us and leave us crippled with insecurity and anxiety. He wants us to forget about the finishing work of the cross, and fall back into a life of slavery to the gods of this world. But we are invited to stand firm, remaining confident in what Jesus has done for us and in the many ways God has been working long before we were ever aware that He was. The good life is a life of confidence that God’s ways are life-giving and the identity He gives us as His children is sure. God doesn’t want us to live blown and tossed by the wind, but walking confidently in all that He has made for us. In Jesus we can be confident that God deeply loves us as His own children, and that as His children, we are living life to the full.

Check out Week Five of The Good Life here as Pastor Skyler unpacks Romans 8:28-30!

There is a promise for all who believe in Jesus, that there can be no comparison between the present hard times we go through and the coming good times God has set out for us. This hope allows us to wait with expectation and anticipation even if what we go through in our lives doesn’t always seem good. His invitation to us in the midst of the pain throughout our world and within our lives is to remember that the longer we wait, the deeper the joy will be when we step into all that God has promised for us. Even when we are tired of waiting, hoping, and praying, the Holy Spirit who has filled us is right alongside of us guiding our words and hearts back to God’s goodness. That’s why we can be filled with hope, and sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

Check out Week Four of The Good Life here as Pastor Skyler unpacks Romans 8:18-27!

Romans 8:14-17

In order to know who we are, we have to know who God is and what it really means to be His children. In Him, we are chosen to receive an unbelievable inheritance that is not just reserved for heaven, but begins now. Regardless of what hard times we may go through, we are promised that by His spirit, we can enter into the good times with him in the midst of what we face. He has chosen us to be His children, and He is a good father with good gifts. The good life in Jesus doesn’t just choose us, but calls us into all that we are and all that we were made for.

Check out Week Three of The Good Life here!