Forgiveness is the first and greatest act of generosity. It is the purest form of giving because it gives without return. God modeled this with Jesus. In other words, forgiveness gives freedom to people who deserve it and that's the Gospel! That's what being generous means and we can't talk about being generous without talking about Jesus!

In our series we've talked about the importance of time, eternity, perspective, assignment and purpose. All believers have a common mission, it's called the Great Commission! It's a commanded mission and we must be actively doing it. But in order to do that we must live disciplined lives as disciples of Jesus and that means having holy habits. It's putting ourselves in positions, places and a heart posture of let God touch and transform our lives!

If you want your life to change, you have to change how and where you spend your time... And if you want to be with God, you must be willing to go where time doesn't matter. Where nothing else matters but Him, because spending time with God is never time wasted, it is always time invested. And yes it's true that we don't have as much time as we think, that time is running out, but we still have time, it's not too late yet... It's TIME to CHANGE!

We are in a series called It's Time to Ride and we've been talking about living with eternity in mind. In this message we look at a moment in time where Isaiah the prophet encounters the divine, supernatural presence of God. In this we see the reality that in the presence of a most holy God is where we realize how unholy we truly are, and as a result we have one response that can be summed up in the phrase The Time is Now! There is a day coming when we will worship the Lord out of obligation and not opportunity. As it is written in John 4:23, The Time is NOW! And we ask you the same questions, what are you doing with your time? Where will you spend eternity as a result of how you spent your time? We believe right NOW is the right TIME to do the right THING!

Grace justifies us... "Just-as-if we never sinned." This is known as justification. It makes us in right standing and right relationship with God, also known as righteous. It's His freely given grace that frees us. We're talking about this idea, this concept of grace because it seems to be one of the most misunderstood, least used and most abused gifts God has given us. As a result, there seems to be some extremes when it comes to this gift of grace.

God is the MASTER of HIDING and we must become MASTERS of DISCOVERY. Maybe you've heard it said before or maybe you've experienced this truth in your life but it's true... "God works in mYSTERIOUS ways." Meaning God does things at times that we don't understand because His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. Also revealing to us this truth that God is a God of secrets and the beautiful part is He wants to share them with us.

God loves family even though sometimes we don't. He loves family so much that it was one of the first things He created in the beginning, however family can be a trigger. Why? Because some of us have momma drama and daddy issues... At the end of the day though we all come from family, and all of us have dysfunction in our families. The only difference is, your dysfunction is different from mine. But no place has greater influence and impact on your character and spiritual development more than your family, and most of the problems we're dealing with are patterns that we learned at home. Aren't you thankful that we have a Father who never stops raising His children?

Trust is belief and confidence in something or someone. That's what it means to entrust someone. To place your confidence in someone. Trust is an expression of faith. It is believing with confident expectation, but trust issues are when you lack reliance, assurance, and confidence in a thing, a person or God. When trust is solely in people it is misplaced, however trust should always be rooted in God. You should not trust people more than you trust God. Besides, God tells us to love everybody, He doesn't command us to trust everyone!