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In the Family, Week 2 | Pastor David Payne
The dreams of our future are often thought to be constructed from the ambitions, hopes, and desires we have. While there are many that will be formed that way, there is a larger, life-sized dream, that will elude us when we neglect to understand our part in the family of God.
In the Family, Week 1 | Pastor David Payne
Sometimes loneliness isn’t just a thing we feel when there is nobody else present, it can even be something we feel when we’re surrounded by lots of people. The local church is a place like that sometimes! What if the loneliness we feel has more to do with having a lack of understanding of our DNA and framework of faith than with the presence of ‘people like us’?
Worry & Anxiety | The Fog, Week 4 | Pastor David Payne
Foggy headspace is often plagued by consuming worry, and even physical manifestations of anxiety that only accelerate the worrisome merry-go-round! Worry can feel ’normal’ in our day and age, and with so many humans dealing with anxiety, we can feel resigned to ‘deal with it.’ God’s best for us is freedom in every way – including from worry and anxiety though!
Unseen Trauma | The Fog, Week 3 | Pastor David Payne
Every one of us has trauma in our past or present life. For some the scope and complexity is more severe, but everyone has to deal with it. Trauma often tries to dictate the methods of dealing with it, but trauma’s nature is to remain, not go away; as a result we have to ignore the voice of trauma and engage a better process.
Stinking Thinking | The Fog, Week 2 | Pastor David Payne
Every thought we have isn’t one we should entertain. Crazily a lot of the thoughts we have, are the same thoughts we’ve had lots of times, and we keep letting it hang around. Is the foggy mental unwellness helpable? Yes it is! Thoughts show up but what we do when they do is up to us.