🌊⛈️ — Life brings trials and storms 🤔🙏 — We ask “why?” and “how?” 📖✝️ — James says trials test faith → build perseverance 🏃♂️💪 — Like Ironman training, endurance transforms us 😀➡️💔➡️💪 — Trials: not to make us bitter, but better 4 Keys for Facing Trials: 1️⃣ 👆📖 — Look Up: ask God for […]
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😔🌍 Troubling week: assassination, school shooting, missile attack ✈️🇹🇿 Trip to Tanzania with pastors + World Vision 🚰👩👩👧 Women once walked 6 hrs for water ➝ now water nearby = dignity, safety, income 🙌 Hope restored, families transformed 👶📸 Children chose sponsors from photos ➝ reminder we all long to be chosen 💔➡️💖 God says: […]
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🏃♂️➡️🏁 Finishing the Acts series like a runner crossing the line ⛵⚡🐍 Paul’s wild journey to Rome — yet God’s promise still fulfilled 🙌 ✝️💪 #1 Confidence in God’s purposes (Romans 8:28) 🔥🙌 #2 Enthusiasm for Christ + His Kingdom 🤝❤️ #3 Genuine love for people right in front of us 📖 Acts ends “unfinished” […]
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⛵🐍 Shipwrecks & Snakebites Life doesn’t go as planned—but like Paul, we can be: ✝️ Calm in Crisis 🛡️ Confident with Critics ❤️ Compassionate to Community All because we’re Committed to the Cross. […]
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🌊 Faith is the anchor in life’s storms—hold on, take heart, have hope. ⚓️❤️🌟 ⛵️ Paul faced a hurricane 🌪️ but found peace in God’s promise. 🙏✨ 💔 Storms come—loss, doubt, fear—but Jesus brings hope. ✝️🌈 🤝 Sometimes we cling, sometimes we encourage—either way, God is with us. ❤️ 🙌 It’s never too late to […]
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🚤 Sometimes you’re out of options — like grabbing the oars when the boat dies. ⚖️ Paul’s “last resort” defense before King Agrippa becomes a Gospel declaration. 🗣 Paul’s testimony is a model for ours: 1️⃣ Past — 🙅♂️ Who I was before Jesus (even my worst parts) 2️⃣ Powerful Encounter — ✨ How Jesus […]
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🙅♂️ Life’s not fair… now what? In Acts 25, Paul faces lies, politics, and injustice—but holds on to one unshakable truth: Jesus is alive. 💥 Pastor Ellis shows us how the resurrection changes everything—even when we’re treated unfairly. 🙌 One service. One family. One Name. ⚖️ Faced with injustice? 👉 Surrender bitterness 🗣️ Speak wisely […]
⏳ Waiting is hard — for healing, answers, change 🙏 Paul gets a promise: “You’ll go to Rome” (Acts 23:11) 🚫 But instead of breakthrough… years of waiting in prison. 💬 Even in waiting, Paul keeps sharing Jesus 🧠 He talks about: 1️⃣ Righteousness — 🕊️ Past: Jesus has saved me 2️⃣ Self-control — 💪 […]
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👀🔎 We all hide in plain sight—like Waldo. 😔 Afraid to be seen, we cover up and pretend. 📖 Luke 18–19: 1️⃣ Bartimaeus – 🙈🧑🦯 Ignored, blind, begging. 🎯 Jesus stops, sees him, heals him. 🙌 Bart follows Jesus. 2️⃣ Zacchaeus – 🌳💰 Rich, hiding in a tree. 🎯 Jesus sees him, calls him by […]
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