“dreams are the language of heaven”
“Dreams are the language of Heaven.” – a quote from our pastor at the 1 year anniversary of our church The entire sermon was on dreaming, and specifically the idea of finding a God-dream for your life and working towards it. I don’t really know why I found this true, but for a while I often struggled with relating dreaming and dreams to my faith (mostly throughout high school and college). Not that they were ever truly detached from each other, but I think it is a concept not really talked about or really discussed in the church. Disney encouraged me to go after my dreams, but sometimes at church…
and just like that summer collapsed into fall….
The first day of September. Crisp mornings as the sun begins to rise. Excitement and anticipation as football season begins. The feeling of drinking your first pumpkin cream cold brew of the season. Long conversations over hot coffee. The last warm sunny days before the rain and wind come. The feeling of fall in the air. Growing up, fall was never a favorite time of year for me. With the start of school, busyness and chaos surrounded me this time of year. I never knew what it meant to anticipate fall. The crunching leaves. The changing colors. The feeling of joy in the air. There was always some excitement in…
When God has a Different Plan
Senior year of college. Last semester. You have this entire plan laid out for how you would like the next couple months to go (or maybe you don’t even know where to begin). This is where I found myself (and where all of my friends were as well) earlier this year. God had set something on my heart, yet it seemed as though that plan was not working out the way it should. Would God really bring me this far to have me fail? That answer for me, at the time, was no, but the honest answer is that it could be yes. And not fail in that you have…
Our Sustainer
“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of Majesty in heaven.” -Hebrews 1:3 A common theme seen throughout the book of Hebrews: He is Greater. He is greater than Moses, Elijah, and all the prophets that came before him. He is greater than Abraham and Isaac, than John the Baptist. But not only is He greater than people, individuals, He is greater than things in our life: He is greater than all our fears, worries, and doubts. He is greater than…