What are the purposes for church? Why are we what we are, and what are we supposed to be doing here? These are questions for which I think many people in the church pews from week to week wonder. There is this thought that - "is this all that there is?" - often crosses the minds of those who are sitting and absorbing the teaching for the week.

Is there more? Are you satisfied with just the status quo of church as we experience it in the western hemisphere today? In North America today? Am I proposing or suggesting that something is broken in need of fixing? God's church is not broken, but what man has made of it is certainly not only broken but in sad need of repair!

Are you willing to follow the vision that God gives in the Word on what church is supposed to be? Then let's begin an adventure - one that just might spark a revolution!

Free Indeed!

Are we truly free? What is holding us back? Why don't we just make the decision to do what we will; not considering the consequences? What does it mean to be free? Free to choose from the dollar menu at McDonalds? Free to choose the career field into which you will commit yourself for between 20 and 40 years? (if you are truly luck these days...or is that really luck?) Or is true freedom that which frees us ultimately from the bondage that keeps all men (and women) from experiencing a revolutionizing and all encompassing freedom? Where can this freedom be found? How do we know that it will last? By turning to the One from Whom all truth flows.

Jesus said, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Who is this that can by simply saying the word can make men free? How deep does this freedom flow? Is it freedom from the daily cares and worries of this world? Is it deep enough to satisfy the hidden, but powerful longing in our souls to know the depth of life and what the future holds? Yes, and more!

Again Jesus said, "Truly, truly I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever, the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." Are you ready to begin exploring this kind of freedom? Are you ready to follow the One who can promise the kind of spiritual freedom that can only exist and can only be given by the One who not only created us, but the cosmos as well? The trail begins with something as small as a mustard seed...faith.