A Fresh Word: The lostness, the foundness, the love.

A Fresh Word: The lostness, the foundness, the love.

Looking into the parable of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin, we find God portrayed as an active Seeker of lost ones. God’s tenacious search and rescue is motivated by God’s tremendous love for us. These stories speak deep truths about who God is and how God feels about each of us.

By Lisa Borden

A Fresh Word: God as our safe place, our home.

A Fresh Word: God as our safe place, our home.

Unraveling the opening line of Psalm 91, we find God’s welcome to settle and be at home in the shelter of who God is. There is a YES/AND in that we cannot exist outside of God, AND we’re invited to choose to make our home in God. As we trust God to be our safe place, we begin to thrive.

By Lisa Borden

A Fresh Word: God is big enough.

A Fresh Word: God is big enough.

As worship expands our understanding of God, we will discover God is “big enough” for all that happens in our lives – and for us. In fact, worship – having put God in God’s rightful place – puts us in our place, as well – where we discover forgiveness enabling repentance. That leads us to an intimacy with God, enabling us to hear the invitation to mission – and to respond.

By Bill Dogterom