Do you ever feel like life is falling to pieces? Or even just feel the cracks forming in the dream life you pictured you'd have. Whether it is diagnoses, depression, or disappointment, all of us will (at some point) experience what it is like to be fragile. So does that mean God has abandoned us? The message of a lot of popular Christianity is that when you believe the right things about Jesus, God will bless you. But the story the Bible tells is different. It is one where our cracks reveal a greater hope, and where the breaking becomes the place where we experience Jesus and our suffering transforms into our hope!

CJ's Mic: Bible/Speaking/Poetry

Fragile: Jesus and the experience with suffering

Life is a battle and it can feel overwhelming, but the battle for life isn't won by the strongest, but by the one who knows who their enemy is and where it attacks! And the power of Jesus' cross is the way to victory over the enemy.

Know your enemy: youth message

Where is God when everything is going wrong? Does he hear? Does he answer? His answer to our suffering was the cries of a baby one silent night in Israel...

Silent Night: a spoken word production

2020 sucked in a lot of ways, but biblical hope isn't just seeing 2021 as a glass half-full...biblical hope gives meaning in the midst of suffering and a future as bright as new life.  In this episode, we explore Lamentations 3 and 1 Peter 1 and see how radical, raw, and real biblical hope is. "God sees your suffering. He is not far away, he is at work, but when it feels like he isn’t, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t care. But clinging to hope is beautiful in God’s sight." 

Hope: a word for 2021

When Isaiah comes face to face with God's holy presence, God meets him in a surprising way. Not consuming him, but transforming him. A message from Mckenzie Towne Church, August 9th, 2020.

An experience with transformation: the holiness of God and Isaiah 6

So many of us walk around with the idea that God is either out to judge us, is boring, or is just not good. And here's the problem: if we don't believe God is good we will find ourselves moving away from him. The Bible teaches us of a different God who relates to us in the last way we expect and leads us into a (re)new(ed) relationship with our Creator.

Is my God good? Psalm 23

A raw piece that expresses the agony of the Son of Man along side the rawness of repentance, finding ourselves here again, blood stained hands of the guilty, but realizing that it is his blood that calls us forgiven. 

The cross ... (again)

Christmas brings to mind many things, but at its heart is a person. Before bells and snow and hot cocoa was God incarnate, laid upon a manger.Let's go back and experience that moment again together -- through poetry -- when God broke through...

Christmas Eve: a spoken word

Hey friend! Thanks for spending time with me today! I hope as we experience the story of the Bible together that we are challenged, encouraged, and fall deeper in love with the God behind it all! I hope these words serve you and help you to find the life around you in a world full of words that steal life from us. I love what one teacher I heard once said, "whoever finds Jesus finds life!"

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CJ's Mic: Bible/Speaking/Poetry

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