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Carmen Garber explores 2 Timothy 1:6-10, looking at the fears that keep us from using our gifts in the body of Christ, things like false humility, comparison, and past failures. She highlights the biblical pattern where God doesn't remove the challenge but promises to go with us through it, calling us to move beyond fear and step out anyway. The sermon closes with an invitation to do this together, asking who you can stand with and who can stand with you as you try something new, trusting God's power rather than your own.

We are all one in Jesus equally.  Adam and Eve had diversity, but also had unity.  In creation and in relationships, when diversity comes together, there's beauty.  His wants us to delight in our differences and even embrace tension to bring us closer to God in asking for grace to live in relationship.  Satan tries to twist and destroy that in order to create confusion.  We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit so we can: speak to one another; sing in our hearts to God; give thanks in all things; and be given the ability to submit mutually.

Congregational sharing on God's resurrection power.