How Can We Be Salt and Light?

Our Pella Vital Men group just wrapped up Season 2 of The Chosen. We noticed these past couple weeks the increasing intensity that was building with Episodes 7 and 8 of Season 2. We’re already looking forward to Episode 1 of Season 3 where Jesus shares His...

Jesus Values Our Curiosity

Luke 11:1 NIV One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” This scene of Jesus sharing the Lord’s Prayer was shown in Episode 7 of...

Success Is A Liar

What I am sharing today is a message of Justin Camp. I read this and believed it was worthwhile for us as men. Matthew 16:26 NIV What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? “Life’s not all about success.” Those...

What Is Overflowing?

Matthew 12:34b NIV For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. What is overflowing from our hearts?  Love? Tenderness? Compassion? Or is it more often frustration? Anger? Criticism? Or perhaps jealousy? Jesus was talking to the Pharisees when he spoke this...

Distracted Listening

Proverbs 4:25 NIV Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Philippians 2:4 NIV Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. What is the cost of our inattention? What happens when over time our listening...