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We are looking at God’s forgiveness of our sins, but also how that frees us and implicates us to forgive others, even those who have deeply hurt us.

I want us to be able to address what’s really going on and then clean slate one another and keep no record of wrongs that may fuel future fires...

“How wonderful, how lovely is Your name. You captivate our hearts, You save us by Your grace.”

Thank you for all your support of UNLEASH and Cuyahoga Valley Church.  You are helping to change people’s lives for eternity!

How the Holy Spirit helps us:
Instruct us and reminds us of what Christ has taught (John 15:26)
Convicts the heart of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8–11)
Guides us in the way of truth (John 16:13; Romans 8:14)

How do we do good deeds? What’s gospel-based approach to do-gooding?

“Great is Your faithfulness, Your faithfulness
Through the years you’ve always been there.
Great is Your love for us, Your love for us.
Through the years you’ll always be there.”

This past weekend, several people asked me questions about the nature of faith and works. I was asked, “If we are saved by faith and not by works, then why did you talk so much about our need to do good works?”

So, are you alive? Do you have new life in Christ? Well, I think so. How can I know? You say you have faith, but you have no works? Your faith is a dead faith.

But if you have works, it’s proof that your faith is alive and real and active.

I\'m praying that God will remind me often about The Day that is coming. And that I will be ready. There is a sense in which \"spiritual stats\" are being compiled by God as He watches our lives moment by moment, day after day, year after year. And these \"spiritual stats\" will either work for us or against us. I want to be found being filled with the Spirit, abiding in Christ, and being busy inviting people to new life in Christ. 

Based on everything we know about Jesus – so loving, so kind, so merciful, so forgiving – we might expect Him to maximize heaven and minimize hell. We want a. Jesus who has a friendly tone all the time. We want a Jesus where there’s not really any wrath or anger or judgment. Surely Jesus is going to highlight the love of God and lowlight the justice of God when He talks about judgment day. Right?

This past weekend, we spent time and energy focusing on the phrase from the Apostles’ Creed “from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.“ 

Meditating about the judgment to come is not the most popular of topics. But Christians who have gone before us have summarized the judgment in some helpful historical documents.