Lift Your Spirit – “A Very Maverick Christmas Special”

“Look! The virgin will conceive a child!    She will give birth to a son,and they will call him Immanuel,    which means ‘God is with us.’” Matthew 1:23 Pause and let that fact sit with you for a bit: GOD is with you. Now consider this: He wants to be with you. Not because you’re stellar, or uber-intelligent, […]

“The Secret To Getting Through” ~ Steven Furtick

The Lord Is My Shepherd A Psalm of David. 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.2     He makes me lie down in green pastures.He leads me beside still waters.3     He restores my soul.He leads me in paths of righteousness    for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,    I will fear no evil,for you are with me;    your rod and your staff,    they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table […]

“Not Called to be Perfect – Called to be Faithful”

Perhaps you can relate to words that sound like: people-pleaser, performer, over-achiever, perfectionist, workaholic … these had been the descriptive words of my life. Quite honestly, it wasn’t until the most recent handful of years that I’d come to realize that I had been striving with myself – over who I thought I was supposed […]