If you were in attendance this past Sunday for True North, it was a pretty awesome morning.  Brian spoke on Joshua.  Courage and boldness were the goal, with discipline, scripture, and faith as the mean to the end.

Here is what the set looked like:

1) Glorious One

2) Made Me Glad

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3) Stronger

4) Everything

As far as the back set goes, we wanted to focus on the idea of “In our weakness, He is strong”.  As Christians, we often become jaded towards these “churchy” sayings, and forget the real truth behind them that played out the biblical stories and morals in our minds.  Acts 1:8 talks about The Holy Spirit coming upon us in power, and us being sent out to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and to all the ends of the earth.   We know from 2 Timothy 1:7, that “God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.”

It is with this backdrop that we can begin to see ourselves step out of guilt, shame, and our old ways into the fullness of what He has created us to be.  He didn’t die so that we could go on living mediocre, mundane lifestyles.  He died so that we would become the fulfillment of the promises.  He died so that we would be love.  He died for you, but He also died for them that do not know of Him yet.  And is we are not bold and courageous to do this, who will tell them and how will they know?

The song Stronger begins at salvation and into the chorus moves into just declaring His strength in our lives.  From there we went into Everything, which seemed to be the next step.  Yes, we’ve been redeemed and we’ve been set free.  And, yes, he is strong.  But, as Romans talks about, the same power that raised Christ from the dead now dwells within us.  We can be bold and courageous now because of His spirit that resides inside of us.  It’s a really dope concept, and something that I’m still wrapping my head around and still taking baby steps into.

Much love…