Book: Luke

As a Christ follower, you will never remove stress from your daily schedule until everything else in your day is ordered around time with Jesus. Conversely: your daily schedule will never be saturated in God’s peace until everything else in your day is ordered around time with Jesus. Time with Jesus ought to be the building block on which the rest of your day’s activity is built.

When we get out of our rearview mirror and stop focusing on what could be, it actually gives us the power to step into and through the RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW.

Whoever devotes themselves to themselves will have nothing but themselves to show for themselves. But if you devote yourself to more than yourself, you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

“Follow Me” by Tracy Marsh, youth pastor. Luke 9:57-62

Every time you pass on by, not only do you miss an opportunity to impact someone else, but you have also missed an opportunity for God to impact you.

It’s important to remember the point of your story. God has called you to impact the lives of those around you. … It’s easy to let our routines become distractions.

Sermon by Tracy Marsh, youth pastor Text: Luke 2:4-7

This parable makes it clear that if we love our neighbors only when it requires no time, energy, money, or risk, we will never love our neighbors as ourselves. All love is costly.

Decisive action now with what we cannot keep will in some way make a difference in our futures. The road to who we are becoming in the future begins now.