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When the answer continues to be "not yet", what is happening to your heart? Are you becoming bitter? Cynical? Are you taking matters into your own hands, trying to manipulate the people around you and force the outcome you want? In this message, Pastor Kurt explores how our waiting is not wasted. God is not just preparing the blessing for us; He is preparing us for the blessing.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to understand Exodus. Walking through this book will supercharge your reading of the New Testament. It will show you exactly what it cost for God to secure your freedom, and what it looks like to live a life of true avodah—joyful, unchained worship of the only God who can actually set you free. You cannot save yourself through perfect service, but you can be saved by the One who became a servant for you.

We all wonder, "Don’t I have to clean up my act first in order to be the new person?" But the problem is we can't. Maybe we do okay for a couple of days, or maybe even a couple of weeks, but then in a moment of weakness or exhaustion we fall back and do something old again. It takes a kind of power that we don't have to live the new life - the power that can only come from the Holy Spirit.

What would it look like if you prioritized your life to be with the Holy Spirit? To stay connected to His presence, to allow Him to teach you and to guide you, and to trust Him to help you in every circumstance of your life? How would that change things for you?

The goal of an abiding relationship is not to avoid friction at all costs. You cannot live intimately with another human being without eventually stepping on their toes, hurting their feelings, or profoundly disappointing them. The goal instead is to learn how to handle the friction without severing the connection.

Three lessons we can learn from Jesus in John 5 on how to respond to pressure and how we can apply that to parenting. The post Abiding in Parenting appeared first on Silver Creek Fellowship.

When you abide in Christ, your everyday relationships shift from transactional to transformational. You stop asking, “What can I get from these people?” and you start asking, “Lord, how do You want Your life to overflow onto these people right now through me?” The fruit Jesus talks about isn't just for you, it's also meant to be tasted by the people around you. The post Abiding in Everyday Relationships appeared first on Silver Creek Fellowship.

A healthy marriage is not two broken people facing each other, desperately trying to complete each other. It is two people, completely secure and deeply loved by God, standing side by side, and letting His life mutually overflow between them. The post Abiding in Marriage appeared first on Silver Creek Fellowship.

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Are you actively participating in Jesus' Great Commission? The post A Feeling You Will Never Forget appeared first on Silver Creek Fellowship.

Jesus' disciples died because they and hundreds of others had seen the risen Christ with their own eyes. The evidence is solid. The history is secure. But history demands a verdict from every single one of us. So the question that Matthew and the other Gospel writers pose to us is this: What are you going to do with this evidence? The post Easter – Four Responses to the Resurrection appeared first on Silver Creek Fellowship.

Reading through Matthew 26 & 27 with response through reflection, communion, prayer and song to help prepare our hearts for Easter. The post A Service of Reflection appeared first on Silver Creek Fellowship.