Dan Murray: Jacob’s Heart

  Josiah recently preached a sermon on Isaiah 55, noting how many times God tells us to come, calling us to repent from sin and find mercy and grace, and fulfillment of our deepest longings in Him.

  On New Year's, Pastor Adams talked about Jacob's nature, along with his name, being changed, from a tough nut to crack to a man who was simply with God. Pastor Adam's encouragement to us was to not go through this next year unchanged: "Don't let God go this...

  We are adopted and fully loved—greatly beloved! For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” (Romans 8:15).