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What does it really mean to be stable in our faith and finances? This message takes us on a journey through the tension between strategy and faith, revealing that true stability is not found in how tightly we grip our plans, but in how willingly we open our hands to God in surrender.
Drawing from powerful biblical accounts, including the paralyzed man lowered through a roof by four determined friends and the woman who broke an alabaster jar of perfume over Jesus, we discover that our strategy can position us for faith to be seen, and our faith can give us the courage to act on the strategy God provides.
The central challenge is this: most of us lean heavily on one or the other, either trusting our spreadsheets or trusting that God will simply handle it. But when strategy and faith are integrated, something shifts. We move from managing life on our own terms to participating with God in something greater.
This is a message for anyone who has ever felt the exhaustion of trying to hold everything together alone, or the frustration of believing without acting. There is a better way, and it begins with loosening our grip.
4 Oct 2026
From Stuck To Sent Part 1 – Stuck
What does it actually mean to trust God with our finances when the bills are piling up and the anxiety feels overwhelming?
In this message drawn from Luke 12:22-34, we are invited into an honest and surprisingly personal conversation about the intersection of faith and financial health. Jesus speaks directly to people who are struggling, people living under real pressure with real needs, and rather than dismissing those needs, he dignifies them. He simply refuses to let worry be the answer. The central spiritual insight here is that anxiety does not add a single hour to our lives, and yet we pour enormous energy into it. Instead, we are called to seek the kingdom first, described in Romans 14:17 as righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
The radical idea is that entering into that kingdom posture actually changes how clearly we can think and act in the middle of scarcity. Research on farmers experiencing scarcity shows that stress and lack measurably reduce our cognitive capacity, and this message connects that finding to the spiritual wisdom of seeking peace before strategy. When we are grounded in the kingdom, we are better equipped to face the practical realities of our financial lives with clarity rather than chaos.
27 Sept 2026
Esther Part 3
What happens when everything seems to be working against us and the walls are closing in?
The book of Esther gives us a front-row seat to one of the most dramatic reversals in all of Scripture. We follow a young Jewish woman living in exile, navigating a foreign culture without a clear, audible word from God, and yet stepping into extraordinary courage at the moment it mattered most. The central spiritual lesson here is that God is not absent just because he is silent. He is working in the background, in sleepless nights and royal court records and unlikely dinner invitations, orchestrating a reversal so complete that the very trap set for destruction becomes the instrument of deliverance.
Esther chapter 9 verse 1 captures it plainly: the day the enemies of God's people expected to win became the day God's people prevailed. That kind of reversal is not a one-time historical event. It is a pattern woven into the character of God himself. For us today, this story is an invitation to trust that what the enemy has designed to isolate, silence, or destroy us is not beyond God's reach. He is the God who flips the script, and that truth is as alive for us now as it was for Esther and Mordecai in ancient Persia.
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