Boulder Church Daily Walk Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Boulder Church | Paul knew that Jesus fulfilled the promise of salvation past, present and future, that He defeated the final death so that we can live.
Boulder Church | While we all belong to the same body, each of us has a different part to play.
Boulder Church | Who are the people, moments, and things that have shaped your identity?
Boulder Church | Imagine going to church tomorrow. What would the experience be like for someone new, what would it mean to them?
Boulder Church | How many of us are always seeking something new when the thing that we are already doing or already have is all we need?
Boulder Church | Zeus for us today is anything other than Jesus that we wish to give control over our lives.
Boulder Church | When we see Jesus we see the Father. Jesus sends us the Holy Spirit who points us to the Father and the Father points us back to Jesus.
Boulder Church | Paul understands the daily struggles we face and the negative narratives that tell us we are alone—that we must accept our lot in life while we spiral further into the abyss.
Boulder Church | Why is genuine faith never just believing things are true—that is, intellectual assent?
Boulder Church | When was the last time you thanked God for the faith, love and hope of your friends and family?
Boulder Church | Every decision we make in life, every action we take, every opportunity before us requires wisdom—either our wisdom or the wisdom of others.
Boulder Church | It is easy enough to love those who are kind, generous, friendly, or gracious—or those with whom we simply find a more natural connection.
Boulder Church | Jesus is the true deliverer, and our deliverance came about through tremendous suffering.
Boulder Church | Even unpleasant circumstances can provide a sense of comfort when they become familiar.
Boulder Church | Inspiration faithfully records the faults of good men, those who were distinguished by the favor of God; indeed, their faults are more fully presented than their virtues.
Boulder Church | Great leaders gain influence because they are trusted, as their ability, integrity, and benevolence are recognized by those around them.
Boulder Church | Whom do you admire the most in a leadership position? What makes him or her a good leader?
Boulder Church | What can we do today to prepare for the future? Is money in the bank all we need to get us through?
Boulder Church | As God’s servants on this earth, we will promote human flourishing in active partnership with God.
Boulder Church | It is sad when people who could make a real difference neglect to act.
Boulder Church | Joseph didn’t seem to question why “bad” things were happening to him.
Boulder Church | I’m personally not excited about embracing suffering and limitations, but Joseph somehow mastered this intuitively (with God’s help).
Boulder Church | While I don’t look for signs regarding the future in my own dreams, I believe God can communicate through any means He chooses, including dreams
Boulder Church | Joseph’s loyalty to Potiphar was the result (fruit) of his loyalty to God. His ethic was based on concern for others.
Boulder Church | For Christians, self-differentiation means allowing the Holy Spirit to direct our behavior (for secular people, it’s their values) rather than going into “default mode.”
Boulder Church | Something is missing in the lives of many church members, and all too often, in my own life as well.
Boulder Church | In Jesus, we also believe that we are yet to see the complete fulfilment of the prophet’s promises of restoration and recreation
Boulder Church | What are some of our cultural and perhaps theological boundaries that might still need to be challenged by Amos’ promise of inclusiveness in the redeemed and restored kingdom of God?
Boulder Church | Maybe the repentance and restoration of Israel—or at least a remnant of the people—was exactly the point and purpose of Amos’ urgent entreaties.
Boulder Church | Why is it so appealing to use single Bible verses for inspiration or doctrinal study?
Boulder Church | Relationship counsellors recognize that communication is vital if a relationship is to continue and to grow.
Boulder Church | In the prophets’ estimation, true Sabbath keeping is linked closely to the practice of justice and true Sabbath-keepers are people of justice.
Boulder Church | Faithlessness had consequences, injustice mattered—and Someone was taking note.
Boulder Church | God’s judgments and justice are based on pre-existing measures—and particularly so in the experience and history of the people of Israel.
Boulder Church | This is the burden of the prophet: compassion for man and sympathy for God.
Boulder Church | This is the judgment that God’s people and His prophets—and the poor, oppressed and exploited they have spoken up for throughout history—have been looking for.
Boulder Church | Whenever the Bible sounds a call to justice—which it does about 2,100 times—it is not merely a call to our best human impulses and efforts, but an invitation to join with God’s intentions for our world and its people, and the work that He is doing and will do to restore and renew His creation.
Boulder Church | Their lack of compassion, with little concern for the needs of others and the systemic unfairness of their society, was a stark contrast to both their self-indulgent lives of luxury and their supposed religious practices
Boulder Church | In Amos’ understanding, the defining feature of the remnant of the people would be the mercy of God.
Boulder Church | This altar call comes in a different cultural context to that we are familiar with.
Boulder Church | Amos was proclaiming the severe mercy of God, who loves both the oppressed and the oppressor, whose justice seeks the restoration of both, but who will act to bring an end to injustice and freedom to those who are oppressed.
Boulder Church | Some Christians seem to interpret every triumph or tragedy—however small—as a blessing from God or an attack of the devil, perhaps less often a punishment from God. To what extent do you agree or not with such a view of our lives and experiences?
Boulder Church | What are our greatest risks of syncretism today? How do we distinguish between cultural relevance and syncretism?
Boulder Church | Amos reminded the people that God had chosen them specially, that He had rescued them from Egypt.
Boulder Church | Do we assume that God is working in our lives, our communities and our world today?
Boulder Church | Do you think people who know God are judged differently from those who don’t know Him or what He commands?
Boulder Church | Amos’ prophecies are harsh in their judgments and dire in their warnings.
Boulder Church | Stepping onto the stage against the backdrop of this national and political sense of wellbeing, Amos was called to sound a different note.
Boulder Church | Why does it seem that God has often used unlikely people from out-of-the-way places to be His messengers?
Boulder Church | Is the problem with our Sabbatarianism that we have believed in it too little, rather than too much?
Boulder Church | What if you decided that the Sabbath was a day for giving rather than keeping?
Boulder Church | Is it possible that we have diminished the idea of the Sabbath to just a day, and that we no longer see it as a principle that we can incorporate into everything we do?
Boulder Church | How do we create a life where our heads and our hearts are fully invested in the “Spirit and Truth” of who God is?
Boulder Church | Keeping it simple, we must worship with both our hearts and our heads.
Boulder Church | If you grew up in the church, you grew up singing songs but you didn’t necessarily grow up in a culture of praise and worship.
Boulder Church | Looking forward to hearing Pastor J. Murdock preach today! Happy Sabbath!
Boulder Church | We have been given all the tools, creativity, innovation and energy that we need to make great strides for the kingdom.
Boulder Church | God has always been a God that can handle change, has handled change, and at times, has even been the author of change.
Boulder Church | How powerful is God to understand that we may need more than one way out.
Boulder Church | Can we really say that there is nothing that needs to be adjusted or changed in our churches or in our lives?
Boulder Church | When was the last time you thought of church as the most innovative place in your life?
Boulder Church | Looking forward to hearing Elder Ray Tetz preach today. Happy Sabbath!
Boulder Church | Things can be better now—and even in the days to come—if we can remember to dream.
Boulder Church | So if Jesus is creating the new humanity, it means that in every interaction we have with Jesus something new is being made.
Boulder Church | Traditions, while containing the possibility of being catalysts for the ability to dream, often crush the dreams of the new.
Boulder Church | When was the last time you allowed yourself to dream about what your local church could be?
Boulder Church | Every person has the ability to believe, and indeed does believe (rely on or trust) in something (God, ourselves, or idols of all kinds).
Boulder Church | For a long time, modernism held the promise of a logical explanation for everything.
Boulder Church | Forgiveness means the forgiver is willing to absorb the cost of a blunder (or malicious act).
Boulder Church | God breathed life into Adam and Eve so they could be His image bearers, representing God to the world.
Boulder Church | The resurrected Jesus is not millions of miles away. He is with us here and now.
Boulder Church | I see the ordinance of footwashing as a chance to make things right with those we may not always get along with.
Boulder Church | As much as I believe God’s love can change our hearts, I have to wonder why not everyone is awed by it.
Boulder Church | As Christians, we should not be surprised that God originally wired humans to serve and find fulfilment in seeking the welfare of others.
Boulder Church | Virtually all Christians (including Adventists) agree that Christ gave us an extraordinary example of service and humility when He washed the feet of His disciples—not only as their rabbi, a remarkable gesture in itself, but on an infinitely greater scale.
Boulder Church | Happy Sabbath! Join us early for foot washing this week and every week leading up to Easter.
Boulder Church | By courageously drinking the entire “cup” Jesus completely emptied out evil’s poison—which is separation from God.
Boulder Church | If walking in the light encompasses being truthful regarding who we really are, why is humanity enveloped by darkness?
Boulder Church | Christianity has circled the globe, but numerical growth is not occurring simultaneously in all locations.
Boulder Church | Well-known pastor and author Tim Keller has often said, “The gospel is good news, not good advice.”
Boulder Church | My value is not based on how I look in the mirror after a church potluck, what neighborhood I live in, how many “followers” I have on Twitter, which people invite me to their home for dinner, or how much money I have at the end of the month.
Boulder Church | The religious leaders plotting to kill Jesus had studied their scriptures carefully and knew large portions from memory.
Boulder Church | Back then it was unusual for women to sit and learn at the feet of a rabbi and this is another example of how Jesus treated men and women equally.
Boulder Church | When we focus on God’s love for us (seen most clearly on the cross), we cannot help but love Him.
Boulder Church | We are always exceeding, meeting, or failing to meet expectations or having other people, places, or experiences exceed, meet, or fail to meet our expectations.
Boulder Church | My faith feels stronger after I’ve considered things that could shake it and have found it subtly changed but nonetheless intact.
Boulder Church | Will desensitization settle in after repeatedly thinking about or viewing reenactments of the death of Christ?
Boulder Church | Jesus was not spared much in the way of agony—not physical pain and not mental pain either.
Boulder Church | This week, we will look at the person of our Messiah and what His characteristics and sacrifice mean for us.
Boulder Church | Our purpose in the world is not so much to judge other people for their shortcomings but to do our best to “arise, shine” and use the power that God gives us to make a difference to our communities and the people we meet.
Boulder Church | Perhaps the best hope we have is in asking God for daily guidance and attempting to be open to His leading, even if that means having to repent and admit that we are less than perfect.
Boulder Church | Perhaps what God is really trying to give is a wake-up call, a chance to make better and healthier decisions.
Boulder Church | This chapter tells us that God cares about justice—deeply—saying, “it displeased Him that there was no justice . . . no one to intercede” (Verses 5-6).
Boulder Church | We hope that you enjoy the message at Boulder Adventist Church today. Consider joining one of our many Bible Study Connect Groups immediately after the worship service to discuss the Scripture and message with others. Plan to stay after church this week for Fellowship Lunch
Boulder Church | What most of us wouldn’t give to have the power to fix so many of the things that are wrong.
Boulder Church | The evidence suggests that God is loving and loyal—to those who follow Him.
Boulder Church | Here God demonstrates the strength of His promises, but His words and actions raise questions about our own agency.
Boulder Church | In fact, I really enjoy the theme of revenge—especially the “revenge speech” genre in films.
Boulder Church | What am I meant to draw from this week’s blood-splattered verses, exactly?
Boulder Church | God promises deliverance and joy to Jerusalem—and I imagine we reading this are supposed to extend this metaphor to ourselves as followers of God.
Boulder Church | It’s easy to be manipulated by other people’s visions of the kind of person you should be.
Boulder Church | How do we come to terms with a God who seems to enjoy swearing vengeance on those who displease Him?
Boulder Church | We need to stop measuring ourselves against other people and develop an inner moral compass—the one placed inside each of us by God—that tells us how to live.
Boulder Church | We hope that you enjoy the message at Boulder Adventist Church today. Consider joining one of our many Bible Study Connect Groups immediately after the worship service to discuss the Scripture and message with others.
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Boulder Church | What if you approached your most important relationship(s) with that attitude: is what I’m about to say, do, even think the most helpful to this relationship?
Boulder Church | Sometimes you’ve got to be willing to get messy if you want the truth.
Boulder Church | Let’s be honest—we sometimes use grace as an excuse, as a “get out of jail free” pass.
Boulder Church | During our teens and twenties, and even thirties, when it seems like we think about sex, or at least about the other sex, all the time, we’re to remember that we have a higher purpose than sex.
Boulder Church | A critical mindset is always looking for the bad, the dirt, the truth—and it becomes like a trap for the one looking.
Boulder Church | What if you just focused on appreciating the moment for what it is—not what it could or should be?
Boulder Church | Why is it that we’re so often more loving, more caring, more forgiving to our pets than we are to the people in our lives?
Boulder Church | What is it in all of us that struggles at times with giving mercy to others?
Boulder Church | A huge part of our challenge to grow up in terms of our feelings of love and attraction is that we live in a culture that promotes ideas that are more childish than they are mature.
Boulder Church | Happy Sabbath! Join us for Fellowship Lunch immediately after Connect Groups!
Boulder Church | Paul is saying that Jesus is so connected with the church that they (together) are one.
Boulder Church | What you invest in your marriage, and how you invest it, is what you will get back.
Boulder Church | Submission isn’t about control; it’s about a choice we all make about how we will treat and respond to our husbands.
Boulder Church | Every time you have to be right, even when you are justified and correct, you contribute to the demise of the relationship.
Boulder Church | Every relationship has gaps—those scary spaces between what’s expected and what actually happens.
Boulder Church | Love is more than words. Love is about how we see others, treat others, talk to and about others.
Boulder Church | When you read Paul’s description of love, it’s clear that he’s talking about more than a marriage relationship; he’s talking about a foundational issue.
Boulder Church | Enjoy this Sabbath day with friends and family and in communication with your Creator!
Boulder Church | When I think of today’s verse, I think of how hard it can be to stand sometimes.
Boulder Church | All we can do is take our burdens to the Lord and lay them in His capable hands.
Boulder Church | Notice in that passage that Jesus’s use of that sword is different than how you or I might think to use a sword.
Boulder Church | Righteousness, doing the right thing for the right reason, fends off the flaming darts of the evil one as well as anything you can fashion.
Boulder Church | Every one of us has to struggle with God to receive our true identity.
Boulder Church | Wouldn’t it be helpful to know what the strategies of the devil are to damn humanity to a life without God?
Boulder Church | As a pastor, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in nursing homes and assisted living centers visiting church members.
Boulder Church | Singing and making music to the Lord (as Paul suggests in the above verse) is one way to get close to the heart of Jesus and have Him stand up in a place of prominence in our own hearts.
Boulder Church | Essentially grace, the free gift of God, is given to every human being.
Boulder Church | In the end, nobody will be deliberately kept from the Kingdom; all will choose that path because being in the Kingdom would be miserable for them.
Boulder Church | Traveling life in a constant walk with the Lord can cement your trust and love with Him.
Boulder Church | God’s promise, His miracle, is that when given the opportunity, He can change the inner man and the outer man.
Boulder Church | If we claim to worship a being that can be understood and grasped, we might be worshiping, but the being we are worshiping is a god made in our own image.
Boulder Church | Paul’s desire for the people of the church is that they be strengthened in their inner self/man/person/being.
Boulder Church | What are the evidences that the Holy Spirit is in possession of a life?
Boulder Church | Jesus showed the universe what a world full of love, healing and forgiveness looks like.
Boulder Church | I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no worse mental anguish in the world than the anguish of rejection.
Boulder Church | Every person ever born was born with their name engraved in the Book of Life.
Boulder Church | We hope that you enjoy the message at Boulder Adventist Church today. Consider joining one of our many Bible Study Connect Groups immediately after the Worship Service to discuss the Scripture and message with others. Pray for the Holy Spirit to strengthen your faith in
Boulder Church | Why did the God of the Universe, Creator of all we see, humble Himself and become a baby, born of a woman into a culture in which legalistic perversion of the law was the norm?
Boulder Church | Father, Son and Holy Spirit were distinct from one another, but were equal in their eternity and power.
Boulder Church | There is great promise if we approach this subject with deep humility.
Boulder Church | Almost every ancient religion had gods who were part human and part divine.
Boulder Church | We should approach this week’s topic by taking off our metaphorical shoes.
Boulder Church | Paul wrote this passage because he had experienced radical transformation.
Boulder Church | What is it about Jesus that many feel we cannot let time be marked in relation to His life?
Boulder Church | In spite of the discouragement we often face, we need to persevere in sharing God with others—our own children, for instance, and other people who have decided they don’t need God in their lives.
Boulder Church | We are called to lay down our crowns and respond to the inspiration of Jesus.
Boulder Church | This time of year is about remembering the blessing of the incarnation.
Boulder Church | The more we are drawn into the wonder of Jesus, the more we want to belong to the family.
Boulder Church | Can you live a life with no regrets? Is that possible? Should it even be a goal?
Boulder Church | The purpose of prophetic literature is not to tell us what the future holds precisely but to let us know—once it has been fulfilled—that God already knew what was going to happen before it happened.
Boulder Church | We hope that you enjoy the message at Boulder Adventist Church today. Consider joining one of our many Bible Study Connect Groups immediately after the Worship Service to discuss the Scripture and message with others. Pray for the Holy Spirit to strengthen your faith in
Boulder Church | Let love flow over the lines on the measuring cup or spoon and let it change your life.
Boulder Church | What tools have you been given to do ministry, to build up the body of Christ?
Boulder Church | When we get in line with Jesus and do what He is calling us to, we become unified with the other parts of the body.
Boulder Church | Sometimes there are bad things that we don’t choose that still end up occupying our hearts and minds.
Boulder Church | A fig tree with nothing but the appearance of fruit is pretty useless.
Boulder Church | Jesus reminds us that healthy trees love people, even those who are hard to love.
Boulder Church | The fruit is what it’s all about, but sometimes we don’t look to see what is making the fruit good or bad.
Boulder Church | We hope that you enjoy the message at Boulder Adventist Church today. Consider joining one of our many Bible Study Connect Groups immediately after the Worship Service to discuss the Scripture and message with others. Pray for the Holy Spirit to strengthen your faith in
Boulder Church | Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Boulder Church | Paul had seen the hard and horrible side of broken humans whose motive was simply to do damage.
Boulder Church | We hope that you enjoy the message at Boulder Adventist Church today. Consider joining one of our many Bible Study Connect Groups immediately after the Worship Service to discuss the Scripture and message with others. Pray for the Holy Spirit to strengthen your faith in
Boulder Church | What would our communities look like if we went the extra mile to confirm our greeting of one another with a visible, tangible gesture?
Boulder Church | It is possible to bring people, no matter how different they might be, together in the name of Jesus.
Boulder Church | In today’s culture of always being busy, time has become something we do not give away freely.
Boulder Church | It’s time for us to take the time to know people by name, to greet someone new and validate their importance to us and to God.
Boulder Church | Would our churches, communities, workplaces look different if we followed the model of Paul and showered one another with compliments on a regular basis?
Boulder Church | I dream of the Church in the future, and this is overwhelming to me at times.
Boulder Church | So many things that people get upset about are because they do not know or understand the full picture.
Boulder Church | When we have our focus on something greater—not the song itself, not our part, not our voice, not our position, but serving those who listen—we are drawn into a harmony that becomes more than the music alone can express.
Boulder Church | How we inspire people and draw on their imagination—how we encourage them to think about Jesus—is foundational to our practice and application of faith.
Boulder Church | Guest speaker Pastor Mark Witas joins us today from Pacific Union College in Angwin, California, where he is the senior pastor.
Boulder Church | We can be of one faith, of one body, and of one community with lots of different expressions.
Boulder Church | People fighting over things that matter to some and do not matter to others.
Boulder Church | King Saul's own jealousy and need to cover up his sins draw him into a place where he is quick to cut off grace for others—even his own son.
Boulder Church | The Spirit of God speaks to our conscience and convicts us to know Him who is the Way, the Truth and the Life and He calls us to defend those who are weaker.
Boulder Church | God is not the architect of oppression, designing cruel regimes to hurt people.
Boulder Church | Could it be that we are so focused on the single word “truth” that we forget all the metaphors that collectively describe Jesus?
Boulder Church | We are God’s people, His family, called to proclaim and translate the everlasting Gospel into real life, personally and corporately.
Boulder Church | These opening verses have been abused and misused for nearly 2,000 years.
Boulder Church | Paul says that we are to never be lacking in zeal, but are to keep our spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
Boulder Church | What I’ve come to determine is this: things are “worldly” when we don’t like them or don’t understand them or are afraid of them, and things are “heavenly” when we do like them, are comfortable with them, and are not afraid of them.
Boulder Church | Paul asks us to be “living sacrifices.” What is he talking about here?
Boulder Church | Romans 11 carries powerful arguments, challenging insights, strong claims, and stern warnings.
Boulder Church | We are all pretty well programmed to be very, very critical of the Pharisees.
Boulder Church | So God put a “stumbling block” in the path for Israel. Is that really what Romans 11 tells us?
Boulder Church | The One who puts His very existence on the line will always be faithful to His word or else.
Boulder Church | The last thing that any of us need is a God in this universe who is capricious or duplicitous.
Boulder Church | Happy Sabbath! We're having a special day at Boulder Church today—hope you can join us!
Boulder Church | At the end of a fast-paced, fully-packed week, let’s pause, inhale, and remind ourselves that Jesus has come to save us.
Boulder Church | Following Jesus leads me along the path of righteousness or the fulfillment of the law.
Boulder Church | As one of the family of God, I find great joy in knowing that my salvation is not dependent on me.
Boulder Church | Paul writes about a nation of great zeal, massive energy, and an eagerness to be correct about God. But their zeal was directed toward the wrong target.
Boulder Church | Sometimes we find it hard to share the goodness of Jesus with people because we feel like they must carry the same family baggage that we have had to carry.
Boulder Church | Have you ever taken a moment to think that you were created by God for a specific purpose in life?
Boulder Church | When I ask myself the question “Is God unjust?” I have to echo Paul by saying “certainly not!”
Boulder Church | When Paul met Jesus, he realized that his “family privilege” was really a facade.
Boulder Church | I encourage you see not only the privilege Paul describes in Romans 9, but also the privilege that each of us individually hold today.
Boulder Church | Do you understand that the love of Jesus is not going away during tribulation?
Boulder Church | God cares about our day-to-day lives, but He also cares about our eternal lives.
Boulder Church | FOMO gives us this idea that there is always something better happening.
Boulder Church | Arrogance is fueled by winning and is crushed by defeat. Confidence is not moved by a specific situation or a particular outcome.
Boulder Church | We were foreknown and predestined to be conformed into the image of God’s Son; we are called, justified, and glorified.
Boulder Church | As a believer and an amateur theologian, I believe in predestination. And I believe in free choice.
Boulder Church | I’m aware that human beings seem to be willing to trade the acquisition of power, money, and convenience for the health, beauty, and general well-being of the earth that God created for us.
Boulder Church | Come early for the ordinance of foot washing. We will celebrate communion during the worship service. Bring a dish to share and join us for Fellowship Lunch!
Boulder Church | We look at the hard times we experience as a privilege, allowing us to share the name of God.
Boulder Church | I wonder if we feel sin is something that we can simply master and control.
Boulder Church | The Gospel is about what God has done and not what we are supposed to do for God.
Boulder Church | We are pleased to welcome special guest speaker Kory P. Douglas today for a full day of inspiring messages!
Boulder Church | Jesus came and lived in sinful human flesh, but lived a life without sin.
Boulder Church | In daily submitting, I open myself to the power I need to remain in Christ.
Boulder Church | Regardless of who you are or what walk of life you are from, you know what it is like to struggle.
Boulder Church | When we choose to follow Jesus we choose to belong to a transformative narrative.
Boulder Church | Is it harder to be the person who ends a relationship or the person who is on the receiving end of the breakup?
Boulder Church | Why do we choose the more negative path? Why do we give in to temptation?
Boulder Church | Have you ever drawn a conclusion that seemed entirely obvious because of the way all the information seemed to be pointing—at least up until the point at which some new data arrived that pointed to another conclusion?
Boulder Church | The passage for this week requires us to slow down and digest it slowly.
Boulder Church | Having the Holy Spirit speak to each individual, whispering God’s desires and will, correcting behavior that will draw away from love of God and neighbor is much more effective for leading us toward Kingdom wholeness than anything etched in stone.
Boulder Church | So, does Jesus choose to go with the old way of the written code or the new way of the Spirit?
Boulder Church | People who obey the law of Christ as written in their hearts are more diligent in their obedience to God’s leading in their life than a person who simply tries to “observe” the law handed down at Sinai.
Boulder Church | When he reasons, sometimes Paul speaks the language of his people, the Jews, in order to reach these same people
Boulder Church | Now we are freed from the wages of sin and freed to live the kinds of lives that don’t breed death and destruction, but love and everlasting life.
Boulder Church | When we pledge our allegiance to the Lamb, our empire ways are set aside for a life of Kingdom living that will radically change how we do life.
Boulder Church | Part of the key to understanding the hideousness of sin is to have our eyes opened to the hideousness of sin!
Boulder Church | I have experienced slavery once in my life. Not as a slave, but as a sort of slave master.
Boulder Church | Grace isn’t applied so that we can be more debauched, hateful, greedy, lustful, and angry; grace is the part of our conversion experience that delivers us from those things so that we can become more beautiful, loving, generous, respectful, and kind.
Boulder Church | We must move beyond ourselves to be utilized by God for goodness in this world.
Boulder Church | The significance of our baptism ought to help us ask the bigger questions outside of our personal religious sins.
Boulder Church | If God’s grace is saving us, then it most certainly is also changing us.
Boulder Church | We are given an identity change that should constantly cause a minor existential crisis in each of us, every day.
Boulder Church | Even after we are freed from the dominion of sin, it is easy to forget that it no longer has a hold over us.
Boulder Church | We are not doomed to reap the consequences of the first Adam’s choices.
Boulder Church | God’s laws are not meant to steal our freedom but to give us the best of everything.
Boulder Church | What we sometimes fail to realize is that the Ten Commandments are the very minimum that I can do for God or for my fellow man. Not the maximum.
Boulder Church | Thank God that Jesus, the last Adam, has reversed the course of history and given us a new life, a new direction, and a future without sin and suffering.
Boulder Church | God wants to dwell with us again—He has wanted this from the very beginning.
Boulder Church | When you gave your life to Jesus—either through prayer or baptism—did you sense you were joining a new community?
Boulder Church | God’s friends, like Abraham, are those who trust Him and are growing in their trustworthiness.
Boulder Church | If I have any trust at all in God, He can do wonderful things in my life.
Boulder Church | I guess with God we really do only need faith the size of a mustard seed to please Him!
Boulder Church | Although they ultimately left out the women (and, ironically, many categories of men), the Founding Fathers asserted in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal and are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Boulder Church | Because Abraham showed that he trusted God, God said, “That’s good (righteous). That’s what I want from my friends. You truly are my friend, Abraham.”
Boulder Church | Faith may be one of the best known “religious” words in our vocabulary, but it has been used so many times, in so many different contexts, with so many different designations that it has almost lost its meaning.
Boulder Church | Enjoy a beautiful Sabbath day with friends, family, and in communion with your Creator!
Boulder Church | Your denomination, your health habits, your spending habits, or your knowledge of Scripture don’t add up to a hill of beans when it comes to having a seat at the table of Christ.
Boulder Church | We are all heirs to the promises given to Abraham. We are all children of Abraham.
Boulder Church | You are not saved because God is obliged to save you; you are saved because He loves you so much that He just can't imagine living without you next to Him.
Boulder Church | Jesus smashes the idea that we can somehow achieve greatness by the things we bring to the table.
Boulder Church | When we see Jesus face to face, there will be no need for faith and no room for doubt.
Boulder Church | Traveling with Jesus often requires that we make accomodations for our fellow travellers, because we recognize the grace that has been shown to us.
Boulder Church | We are not saved by our own works, but by the gracious gift of God in the blood of Jesus Christ.
Boulder Church | "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord."
Boulder Church | Could it be that we have decided that following Jesus is just too difficult (or inconvenient or demanding), so we simply settle for the easiest thing that sort of resembles Christianity that we can stomach?
Boulder Church | When I am wounded, it’s much more difficult to be forgiving or compassionate.
Boulder Church | The law acts like a mirror showing us the spinach in our teeth, the zit on our forehead, and the booger in our nose.
Boulder Church | As long as someone is doing a little worse than you are, whether at home, work, school, or play, you feel a little better about yourself.
Boulder Church | When someone else is going through a crisis, it is easy to show sympathy, maybe even empathy, but when we all go through something together, it can strengthen our connection to each other.
Boulder Church | It’s easy to look at kids who want to shove to the front of the line and think they just don’t understand.
Boulder Church | Paul gives us some space to breathe, reminding us that no one is better or worse off than anyone else.
Boulder Church | We need to allow God to speak to us, to purge us from our own self-deception.
Boulder Church | We are so susceptible to deception that sometimes we can be convinced of a “truth” that isn’t even close to 100% true.
Boulder Church | A person who walks with Jesus is a sinner who is becoming more loving, more gentle, more patient, more kind, more faithful, and more self-controlled with every passing day.
Boulder Church | How often do we accept the promise of salvation and then try to do everything we can do to fulfill God’s promise to us?
Boulder Church | Their advantage wasn’t a leg up on salvation—instead, it was a responsibility to share their faith with a world in dire need of Jesus.
Boulder Church | God asks that we relinquish our will to Him, living by the grace of God and looking forward to the transforming power of His presence in our lives every single day—for only He is perfect.
Boulder Church | Love is too powerful to simply be a word on a piece of paper. It has to be acted on, and its actions are only ever good.
Boulder Church | God deserves to have His character rightly known—even more than human beings do.
Boulder Church | When you claim you belong to Jesus, do everything in the name of Jesus and not anything else.
Boulder Church | When we think about God, we are reduced to analogies and the constraints of human language.
Boulder Church | When you think of your life spent following Jesus, you shouldn’t feel ashamed but rather feel the power of salvation throughout your life.
Boulder Church | When we share about our own faith and how it has been molded over the years, we strengthen the faith of others in ways that no quote every could.
Boulder Church | As followers of Jesus, we should be labeled as some of the most connected people in the world!
Boulder Church | In Paul's ministry we see a strategic-thinking and hardworking man. He took spreading the message about Jesus very seriously.
Boulder Church | Who in your life do you need to rebuild trust with? God? Family member? Friend?
Boulder Church | When was the last time you allowed your conversation to be dramatically shifted in order to share the Gospel?
Boulder Church | What part of your story with Jesus would you find the easiest to share?
Boulder Church | What was the last thing said or written to you that left a lingering positive effect?