Empower Every Life

What constitutes the “good life”? Is it more toys than your neighbor? Career success? Respect among peers? The right friends or spouse? Unbridled freedom? Psalm 1:1-6 says the good life (aka, the “blessed” life) is not about any of these things. Rather, the good life is about becoming a kind of person who lives well forever. The good life is like a well planted tree that draws life from a flowing stream and produces fruit in every season. As believers in Christ, our well-planted life draws from the life-giving stream of the Holy Spirit and from dwelling in Jesus’ instruction about the way God works (God’s “Law”). This is what we mean at CLPC when we say, “Empower Every Life.” It means we are cooperating with the Holy Spirit’s transforming power in our lives.

If you missed Sunday’s message you can listen to it here, or watch the entire service on our YouTube channel.

Also, here’s a Prayer Guide that offers a variety of spiritual practices to jumpstart your daily spiritual routine.

Yours for Christ,

Pastor Steve

Embrace Every Person

Our world needs a different way of relating. We are divided, fractured, and polarized. We are quick to Tweet and slow to listen. Our dealings with one another are dominated by one-upmanship and pay-backs. We strive to gain the upper hand. Our world needs a different way of relating. 

Over the next three weeks, we’re focusing on each statement of CLPC’s mission. This week we examined what it means to “Embrace Every Person.” For us, at CLPC, this means relating to one another and the world in the other-worldly way of the Kingdom of God. Romans 12:9-21 paints a picture of human relationships governed by the love of Christ. “Embrace Every Person” means first, that I am embraced in the grace and love of Christ. Secondly, it means I embrace others in the body of Christ with that same grace and love. And thirdly, it means I embrace my co-workers, business associates, classmates, friends, and even my enemies(!), with the same grace and love with which I have been embraced. If you missed Sunday’s message you can listen to it here, or watch the entire service on our YouTube channel.

Yours for Christ,

Pastor Steve