Better Advice:Time can create distance from our wounds, but Jesus is the one who brings healing.Time plus nutrients heals wounds.My grace is sufficient for you. My power works best in weakness.-2 Corinthians 12:9 The presence of pain does not prove the absence of God.

Better Advice:The fullest life is not found by chasing what feels good, but by becoming more like Jesus.The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that theymay have life, and have it to the full.-John 10:10BAD ADVICE: Love things. Use people. Worship yourself. BETTER ADVICE: Use things. Love people. Worship God.

Better Advice: Our hearts can mislead us. Following Jesus’ truth over our own, His way over ours, and His will over our desires leads us to something better. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?Jeremiah 17:9

Better Advice: We will face more than we can handle on our own, but never more than Jesus can overcome. Putting God in a sentence doesn’t automatically make the sentence something God said.I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world. -John 16:33

20 Years of The Water's EdgeAgain Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. He taught them many things by parables.-Mark 4:1-21. WE live in community like Jesus2. WE serve and give like Jesus3. WE invite people to Jesus4. WE make room for people to encounter JesusFor twenty years, we have refused to believe that the people already here are the only people God cares about. There is always one more person to invite.

“Whatever you do, work at it will all of your heart, as if working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” – Colossians 3:23-24

Depending on the task at hand, the person we’re doing it for, and our motivation for getting it done, our approach and effort to our work can be greatly impacted

1. It changes the what

2. It changes the who

3. It changes the why

“Good enough” asks, “What’s the least I can give?” A job done well asks, “What’s the best I have to give?”

Whatever you do, be faithful with it, put your whole heart into it, do it for Jesus, and trust God with the rest.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | Game Shows: A Fun Month ProductionSpur Each Other on Toward Love and Good Deeds - Hebrews 10:24 God never meant for us to follow Jesus on our own. We all need lifelines: people to encourage, challenge, remind us of what is true, and help us keep moving forward.

Wheel of Fortune | Game Shows: A Fun Month ProductionYou can’t control where someone else’s wheel lands—but you can choose who you will be when it does."Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful.Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father." - Colossians 3:12-17