Pastor Johnathan calls the church to reclaim its holy roar — not in anger or judgment, but in the Spirit-filled power of God. Drawing from the First Amendment, Paul Harvey's prophetic 1965 warning, and the reality of daily spiritual warfare, he makes clear that silence is no longer an option. The church must come together as both a Word church and a Spirit church, submitted fully to Jesus and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ready to let God's power do what we never could on our own.

Pastor Johnathan opens with a bold declaration: the church is ready for more of God — more of His power, His presence, and His miracle-working ability. But he quickly identifies the primary obstacle standing in the way: the spirit of fear. Rooted in 2 Timothy 1:7, he reminds the congregation that God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. That spirit of fear, Pastor Johnathan says, is a direct assault from the enemy, who is genuinely terrified of what God's people can do when they walk in reckless abandon for Jehovah and fully understand the authority they carry under the blood of Christ.

He also addresses the tendency of believers to try to live the Christian life in their own strength — fighting battles through sheer willpower, performing ministry on talent alone, and never stopping long enough to say, "Lord, I need You." Using the story from Matthew 17:14-21, where the disciples failed to cast out a demon, Pastor Johnathan highlights Jesus' diagnosis: faithlessness and too much connection to the world. The solution Jesus gives is clear — prayer and fasting. These disciplines, he explains, are not reserved for the spiritual elite. They are for every believer who hungers for more of God, desires to hear His voice more clearly, and wants to see breakthrough in their lives and in the church.

Finally, Pastor Johnathan lays out a practical call to action, inviting the congregation to join him and his wife in a season of fasting. He walks through four types of fasts — complete, selective, partial, and soul fasts — and encourages everyone to write down their plan, follow through with it, and most importantly, expect results. Because the God who created the universe, who sent His Son for us, and who is for us and not against us is more than worthy of our full expectation and dependence.

Pastor Johnathan opens with a passionate call for the church to pursue more — more of God's presence, healing, anointing, and correction — because the enemy is also ramping up his attacks. Using Moses' encounter with the burning bush in Exodus 3, Pastor Johnathan draws a powerful parallel: just as God called an unlikely, fear-filled Moses to an impossible assignment, God is calling ordinary, imperfect believers today. The key truth is that God was never unsure of Moses, and He is never unsure of you. The wrong person, fully surrendered to the right Jehovah, becomes exactly the right person for an impossible assignment.

Central to this spiritual shift is intentional prayer. Pastor Johnathan challenges the church by pointing out that other world religions — Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism — are deeply devoted to their prayer practices, while Christians often struggle to make time for the one true living God who promises, "I will be with you." He calls the church to united prayer starting in the home, modeled after the early believers in Acts 1:14 and Acts 2:42, who were constantly and devotedly united in prayer. The shift, he declares, is not coming someday — the shift is now.

Pastor Johnathan kicks off a new series called "Ready for More," calling the church to pursue a deeper, more supernatural relationship with God through bold prayer, spiritual warfare, and personal transformation. Drawing from Exodus 3 and Acts 2, he challenges believers to stop playing it safe, take off their self-protective sandals, and make a decisive shift toward the presence of God. The harvest field is ripe, the enemy is real but limited, and the time to press in is now.

Pastor Tim Johnson preaches from Luke 5:12-16, centering on the moment a man with advanced leprosy falls before Jesus and cries out, "Lord, if you are willing, you can heal me." Pastor Tim draws the congregation into the leper's world — the isolation, the shame, the longing for connection — and makes the bold claim that at some point in all of our lives, we are all lepers. Whether through hidden sin, deep shame, or the wounds of rejection, we have all stood behind our own tree, wrestling with the question of whether Jesus is truly willing to reach us where we are.

Pastor Tim unpacks the tension in Jesus' response, noting that the Gospels describe him as moved with both compassion and indignation — not angry at the man, but furious at the evil that ravages a life exposed to sin and shame. He reminds the church that shame is an identity attached to sin, while freedom is an identity attached to grace and forgiveness. The antidote, he urges, is confession and community — stepping out of isolation, finding someone trustworthy, and telling your whole story, just as James calls believers to "confess your sins one to another, that you would be healed."

Ultimately, Pastor Tim turns the leper's question back on the congregation: Are you willing? Are you willing to step out from behind the tree, risk the crowd, and press toward Jesus? He closes with a stirring reminder that our faith must not rest in our own worthiness, but in Jesus' willingness — and Jesus, he declares, is always willing.

In "Grace in the Dust," Pastor Daniel opens with a raw, personal confession — that he himself was once a strung-out drug addict chasing the party scene — before diving into John 8:1-11, the account of the woman caught in adultery. Drawing on 2 Chronicles 30:9 and Psalm 103:4, he establishes the foundation of the message: God is gracious and compassionate, and He will not turn His face from anyone who turns to Him. The place of your lowest moment, Pastor Daniel declares, becomes the place of God's greatest mercy.

From there, Pastor Daniel unpacks three powerful points. First, he calls the church to drop the rock and pick up a mirror, reminding us that we are all quick to expose others while hiding our own sin — but Jesus redirected the crowd's condemnation back onto their own hearts. Second, he proclaims that Jesus meets us at our lowest so He can raise us to our highest, pushing back against the lie that God only shows up when we have it together. Finally, he makes clear that grace is not permission to stay in sin, but the power to come out of it, grounding this truth in 2 Corinthians 5:17 and the words of Jesus Himself: "Go and sin no more."

Preaching from Mark 5, Pastor Joe opens with the striking story of a man so overtaken by a legion of demons that no chain could hold him, no person could subdue him, and no hope seemed left. Yet Jesus crosses an entire sea — through a storm, no less — just to restore this one man. That detail alone, Pastor Joe emphasizes, is God's message to anyone feeling worthless or forgotten: you are important enough for Jesus to go through every trouble just to reach you.

From there, Pastor Joe unpacks four sobering truths about sin. First, you cannot tame or control sin — the moment you think you can, you've already lost the brakes. Second, you cannot bind sin in one place; like a weed, it multiplies and spreads. Third, sin is suicide, just as the 2,000 pigs rushed headlong into the lake and drowned. And fourth, sin is self-destruction — the man cutting himself in the tombs is a vivid picture of what habitual sin does to the soul, even when the wounds aren't visible on the outside.

But the good news, Pastor Joe declares, is that Jesus is Lord over nature, over the demonic, over sickness, and over death. He then offers five pillars of healing and restoration: surrender everything to Jesus, not just the painful parts; approach Him with genuine worship as the evidence of true surrender; stay away from unclean people, places, and things that trigger old habits; beware of idols — anything crowding Jesus out of first place; and finally, go and tell others what Jesus has done for you, because your testimony is one of the most powerful weapons you have (Rev. 12:11).

Pastor Tim Johnson opens with a pointed challenge to his congregation: Are you born again? Using Romans 10:9-10 as a foundation, he makes clear that salvation is far more than repeating a sinner's prayer or checking a box. True belief, he explains, means allegiance—a full surrender of one's marriage, finances, struggles, and identity to the lordship of Jesus Christ. Drawing on the Greek concept of metanoia (repentance) and sozo (ongoing transformation), Pastor Tim emphasizes that being born again is not a one-time event but a continuous renewal of the mind, will, and emotions. As James 2:19 reminds us, even the demons believe intellectually—but salvation demands far more than mental agreement.

Turning to John 3 and Nicodemus's nighttime encounter with Jesus, Pastor Tim draws out three pillars of the born-again life: regeneration, Revelation, and reflection. He draws on Ezekiel 36 to paint a vivid picture of what regeneration looks like—God removing hearts of stone and replacing them with hearts of flesh, cleansing His people from idolatry and filling them with His Spirit. Revelation, he explains, means learning to see the kingdom of God at work in the world around you, while reflection means that the evidence of the Holy Spirit's presence should be clearly visible to everyone you encounter. Just as the wind cannot be seen but its effects are undeniable, so the fruit of a Spirit-led life should be unmistakable to those around you.

Pastor Steve Smith kicks off a new series called "Encounters" by diving into one of the most personal and powerful stories in all of Scripture — the restoration of Peter in John 21. Peter, who had a front-row seat to the miracles of Jesus, who walked on water, and who declared in John 6:68, "Lord, to whom should we go? For you have the words of eternal life," still fell into denial, driven by pride, fear of man, doubt, and insecurity. Pastor Steve reminds us that in some way or another, we've all been there — because every time we sin, we are, in a sense, choosing our own understanding over the Word of God.

But the heart of the message isn't Peter's failure — it's Jesus' relentless pursuit of restoration. Just as Psalms 23:6 tells us that God's goodness and mercy are pursuing us all the days of our lives, Jesus went out of His way to meet Peter on the beach, cook him breakfast over a charcoal fire, and gently ask him three times, "Do you love me?" Pastor Steve points out the remarkable detail that the charcoal fire in John 21 mirrors the charcoal fire in John 18 — the very place where Peter denied Christ. Jesus wasn't just feeding Peter a meal; He was replacing a painful memory with one of healing and restoration, because as Romans 2:4 tells us, it is His kindness that leads us to repentance.

Through this encounter, Jesus reminded Peter of his calling, reaffirmed his commitment, and restored him with purpose — sending him out to feed His sheep. Pastor Steve challenges each of us to do the same: to open the door when Jesus knocks (Rev. 3:20), to repent and turn back to Him, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and to pursue the calling God has placed on our lives right where we are. Whether you're a student, a worker, or someone who has simply drifted away, Jesus is standing at the shore today, calling you back home.

In a passionate closing message on Psalm 150, Pastor Johnathan delivers a sermon titled Don't Stop Short, urging believers to stop holding back their praise and worship of God. He opens with a striking observation — that people will scream, cry, and throw their hands in the air for a performer at a concert, yet walk into the house of God reserved and disengaged. As he puts it, "We won't stop short of screaming at the name of someone who won't know you, but we stop short of shouting at the name of the one who calls you by name." Drawing on Exodus 20:5, he reminds the congregation that God is a jealous God who desires exclusive praise, and that a culture inviting us to put celebrities and influencers on the pedestal of our hearts is pulling us away from the one who is truly worthy.

Pastor Johnathan walks through Psalm 150 as a framework of praise, covering the who, where, why, and how of worship. He reminds the church that praise is not just a Sunday activity — it mirrors what is happening in heaven right now, as Revelation 4:11 declares God worthy of all glory and honor. He draws on the stories of the Israelites building a golden calf in Exodus 32 and the battle of Jericho to illustrate what happens when God's people stop short just before a breakthrough. Whether it's instruments, dancing, or a simple shout of "Hallelujah," Pastor Johnathan calls the church to let everything that has breath praise the Lord — boldly, authentically, and without apology, both inside and outside the walls of the church.

Pastor Johnathan draws from Psalm 118 and the broader thread of Scripture to remind the church that God's redemptive plan, centered on Jesus, never disappoints. With a major spiritual shift already underway — backed by Barna research showing a surge in commitment to Jesus, especially among younger generations — Pastor Jonathan calls the church to boldness, urging every believer to plant that one seed by telling others about Jesus. Missions director Lydia Santa joins him to share how the Think About Jesus movement has grown to over 35 countries, proving that the harvest fields are ripe and the time to act is now.

Pastor Johnathan opens with a vivid and relatable image — a battered guitar case that has traveled the world, its clasps broken, its guitars scratched and dented. Yet those guitars can still be played. In the same way, he reminds us that though life has beaten us up, tossed us around, and left us feeling like damaged goods, God has not written us off. Quoting Charles Spurgeon, "There was never a broken heart brought to Jesus that he did not heal," Pastor Johnathan points to the compassion of Jesus in Mark 1:41, who looked at the broken and said, "I am willing, be healed."

Anchoring the message in Psalm 63, Pastor Johnathan walks us through David's cry from the wilderness of Judea — dry, hunted, and hiding — yet still declaring, "Your unfailing love is better than life itself" (Ps. 63:3). He identifies the things that spiritually dehydrate us: relentless noise, performance-based living, continuous arguments, constant worry, unconfessed sin, and tragedy. Like a coin spiraling down into a dark funnel, we can get trapped in the "why" — why did this happen, why did God allow it — until we are spiritually drained and empty.

The remedy, Pastor Johnathan urges, is to shift our question from "Why, Lord?" to "How can I glorify you through this?" We are called to trust God in the low points, communicate honestly with Him, and exercise the authority He has given us over the enemy (Luke 10:19). Drawing from 1 Corinthians 13:12, he reminds us that not everything will make sense on this side of heaven, but we can fall back on what we do know — the unfailing, unshakeable love of a God who sent His Son, emptied the grave, and declared it paid in full.

Pastor Joe opens with a vivid story from his childhood — a bully who grabbed his food, looked him dead in the eye, and said, "What are you gonna do about it?" That question becomes the heartbeat of the entire sermon, because every believer faces a common bully called sin. Just like that schoolyard bully, sin doesn't have real power over you — it can only exploit the weaknesses it sees. The good news is that the Word of God is a precision cleansing agent, as Hebrews 4:12 reminds us: "For the Word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow." The question Pastor Joe puts before the church is straightforward — what are you going to do about it?

Drawing from Psalm 119:9-16, Pastor Joe walks the congregation through five practical, actionable steps for dealing with the sin problem. First, guard your way by filling up on the Word of God — and do it now, because problems only get bigger when you leave them alone. Second, seek God with your whole heart, which means prioritizing him daily, removing distractions, and making him the most important voice in your life. Third, ask for help — from God, through the Holy Spirit, and from trusted brothers and sisters in Christ, just as James 5 encourages believers to confess their sins to one another that they may be healed. Fourth, hide scripture in your heart, memorizing and meditating on it so that, like Jesus in Matthew 4, you have the sword of the Word ready when temptation strikes. Finally, delight yourself in the Lord — and understand that delight doesn't just happen overnight. It is a product of desire, and desire is a product of discipline.

In this sermon on Psalm 91, John Brindley unpacks what it truly means to dwell in the shelter of the Most High — not as a promise that life will be easy, but as a spiritual reality that evil can never conquer those who belong to Jesus. Drawing on the story of Charles Spurgeon ministering through a cholera epidemic and his own personal struggles, John reminds the congregation that to be in God's shadow, you have to be close to Him, and you get close to God through His Son Jesus Christ. No matter what trials come, if you belong to Jesus, the enemy would have to conquer Jesus Himself to get to you — and that simply isn't going to happen.

Pastor Johnathan opens his message on Psalm 46 by reminding the congregation that every person in the room is a leader — leading families, coworkers, and communities — and that great leadership begins with submission under God. Drawing from the Psalms, he highlights that even the greatest leaders in Scripture, from David to Moses to the sons of Korah, poured themselves out honestly before the Lord. He emphasizes that true leadership is built on relationship — first with the Father, and then with the people we serve — and that without Christ, there is no true freedom or lasting strength.

The heart of the sermon centers on the concept of resilience. Using the vivid image of weeds slowly cracking through a solid asphalt surface, Pastor Johnathan illustrates how unchecked sin — anger, unforgiveness, jealousy, and pride — will find the cracks in our souls and widen them over time. He draws on Jeremiah 17:7-8, which compares those who trust in the Lord to trees planted by a riverbank with roots that reach deep into the water, never withered by drought or heat. He challenges the congregation to ask not just what their resilience is planted in, but who — pointing them back to Jesus, the living water, as the only true source of strength.

Pastor Johnathan closes by calling the church to seal up those cracks through forgiveness, community, and a renewed commitment to being planted where God is. He reminds the congregation that every person is currently walking through a trial, a test, or an open door, and that the way forward is always the same — return to the One who is our refuge and strength. Rooted in Him, the problems we face will never seem bigger than the God we serve.

Pastor Johnathan opens this message by returning to the ongoing series through the Book of Psalms, landing on Psalm 27 — a psalm written by David during a season of real and pressing danger. Enemies surrounded him, false witnesses spoke against him, and violent men came against him. Yet rather than collapsing under the weight of it all, David opens with a declaration of confidence: "The Lord is my light and my salvation — so why should I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1). Pastor Johnathan sets this ancient text against a very modern and urgent backdrop — a recent visit with dear friends from Nicaragua who are living under increasing government persecution for their Christian faith.

The stories from Nicaragua are striking. Friends Pastor Johnathan has known since 2009 — bold, field-tested believers — collected every phone in the room before they would speak about their government, terrified of being listened to. What was once a vibrant ministry of open-air worship, street prayer, and Bible distribution has been criminalized. Praying for someone on the street means automatic arrest and two months in jail. Playing worship music publicly carries the same penalty. Bibles are confiscated. In the years that Pastor Johnathan's team was active in the region, they distributed over 5,000 Bibles to 5,000 families — not knowing how precious those Bibles would become. The lesson he draws is direct: we need to be obedient now, because we don't know what liberties we could lose later.

From this, Pastor Johnathan pivots to a broader declaration about identity and freedom. As America celebrates 250 years of independence, he reminds the congregation that the greater freedom — the one worth celebrating every single day — began just over 2,000 years ago when Jesus rose from the grave. "Yes, I'm an American. Yes, I am a Texan," he says, "but before all that, I am a Christian." Quoting Saint Ignatius, he echoes the sentiment: "I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian." And quoting Romans 1:16, he anchors the church in Paul's declaration: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." The church cannot afford to be a fear-driven people. The only fear that belongs to the believer is the fear of God — and as Oswald Chambers reminds us, when you fear God, you fear nothing else.

The heart of the sermon is built around three powerful realities from Psalm 27. First, Pastor Johnathan unpacks the significance of confidence as a spiritual weapon. He draws from Hebrews 10:35 — "Do not throw away your confidence, for it will be richly rewarded" — and makes the case that a wavering, uncertain believer gives the enemy an open door. Confidence in Jesus is what allows us to walk on the water with Him; losing that confidence is what sinks us. He also connects confidence directly to faith, citing Hebrews 11:1: "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." Confidence and faith are inseparable — when one weakens, so does the other.

Second, Pastor Johnathan addresses the nature of light and darkness. Jesus is the light — and light always wins. Darkness, he explains, is anything that refuses to submit to the lordship of Jesus Christ and the authority of His Word. Darkness torments, keeps people restless, floods the mind with destructive thoughts, and leads ultimately toward rebellion. He references 1 Samuel 15:23, which says "rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols." Darkness cannot understand the light, and it cannot overpower the light — the only way darkness gains ground is when we choose not to turn the light switch on. Drawing from his own testimony, Pastor Johnathan describes years of flipping an internal switch on and off — choosing numbness over vulnerability — and how the longer he kept it off, the harder it became to turn back on. The answer, he says, is staying connected to the source: "Because I am the son of the electrician, it stays on all the time."

Third, Pastor Johnathan outlines what living faith actually looks like in practice. Faith is obeying even when we don't understand — like Noah building a boat before he even knew what rain was. Faith is trusting even when we don't get what we want, holding onto the Promiser rather than just the promise, and seeking first the kingdom of God as Matthew 6:33 instructs. And faith is worshiping even when we don't feel like it. David, surrounded by enemies, still declared that the one thing he sought above all else was to live in the house of the Lord, to delight in His perfections, and to offer sacrifices with shouts of joy (Psalm 27:4-6). That posture — I will shout, I will sing, I will praise with music no matter what — is the model for the church today.

Pastor Johnathan closes by calling the congregation to active, courageous faith. "Waiting on the Lord" is not passive. It is not sitting at home on DoorDash waiting for Jesus to return. It is continuing to disciple, to proclaim, to go — even in difficult and dangerous circumstances, just as his Nicaraguan friends are still doing. The final charge echoes from Joshua to David to Paul: be brave and courageous. We are the blood-bought, adopted sons and daughters of the King of Kings. We are more than conquerors. Nothing can separate us from Him. And so, like David in Psalm 27:13-14, the posture of every believer must be one of confident, courageous, worshipful expectation: "Yet I am confident I will see the Lord's goodness while I am here in the land of the living. Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord."

Pastor Tim Johnson opens with a simple but weighty challenge: write down two words — rise up. Drawing from Psalm 20, a battle hymn sung by Israel before marching into conflict, Pastor Tim makes the case that God is calling His church to rise above fear, discontentment, and the trap of self-reliance. He defines discontentment as "a feeling of unhappiness, dissatisfaction, or a restless desire for better circumstances," and argues that its true opposite is not satisfaction, but surrender. God, he reminds us, did not create us for comfort or contentment — He created us for conformity to His purpose and His will.

From there, Pastor Tim unpacks an acronym built around the phrase RISE UP. To rise, we must first reject false confidence — identifying whatever we've been leaning on besides God, whether reputation, finances, intelligence, or the hope that circumstances will simply change. We must then invest our trust in the Lord, boasting not in chariots or horses but in the name of the Lord our God, as Psalm 20:7 declares. We are called to seek God's presence, because as Pastor Tim puts it, "purpose is found in presence." We must endure with expectant faith, even when — especially when — life is painful and nothing seems to be moving. We are to understand where our victory comes from, recognizing that the people of God rise not because they are stronger, but because God is their defender. And finally, we must persevere and rise, remaining steadfast through hardship rather than merely surviving it.

Pastor Tim closes with a stirring call to action rooted in Psalm 20:5 — "We will sing for joy over your victory" — a declaration made before the battle was won. He invites the church to stand and raise a banner, claiming the name of Jehovah Nissi, God our banner, over every fear, frustration, and impossibility. Victory, he reminds us, has already been established in God's heart and mind. The invitation is simply to trust Him enough to believe it.

Pastor Steve Smith opens his Father's Day sermon with a humorous and self-deprecating story about spoofing an email to motivate his son Nathan to apply for college — a plan that backfired in memorable fashion. From that lighthearted moment, Pastor Steve pivots to a deeper truth: just as his son was briefly heartbroken, all of us carry real and serious wounds — loss, rejection, abuse, divorce, unfaithfulness, and more. Psalms 34:19 reminds us that "many are the afflictions of the righteous," and Pastor Steve makes clear that the question is not whether we have been broken, but whether we have allowed the healer to heal our broken hearts.

Pastor Steve anchors his message in the prophetic words of Isaiah 61:1-2, fulfilled by Jesus in Luke 4:16-21, where Christ declares He was anointed to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free. He also points to Isaiah 53:3-6, the portrait of the suffering servant, reminding the congregation that every stripe Jesus bore on His back was for our healing — including the healing of our hearts. The enemy, Pastor Steve warns, wants nothing more than to keep us from the one person who can truly mend what is broken in us.

Pastor Steve closes by laying out practical steps toward healing: repentance, forgiving others, drawing near to God, leaving ultimate justice to Him, trusting in His healing, praising Him even in pain, and refusing to let brokenness define our identity. He uses the Japanese art of kintsugi — the practice of repairing broken pottery with gold — as a beautiful picture of what Christ does in our lives, making us more beautiful and more glorious than we were before, and pointing others back to the One who did the healing.

In this sermon on Psalm 121, Pastor Jonathan reminds us that God is not just a good God — He is a more than enough God, El Shaddai. Drawing from personal stories and Scripture, he challenges the false teaching that God won't give us more than we can handle, pointing us instead toward total dependence on the Lord. When we empty ourselves of pride, shame, and rebellion, God fills us up and causes our cups to overflow.

Drawing from Psalm 130, Pastor Johnathan opens with a vivid picture of climbing a massive sand dune in Namibia — every step sinking, every footfall threatening to pull him down — as a metaphor for how the enemy works in our lives. Just as C.S. Lewis wrote that "human history is the long, terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy," we keep stepping toward things that promise happiness while the sand rises around us. Pastor Johnathan reminds us that the greatest attacks often come just before a breakthrough, pointing to Psalm 71:20, which says, "You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth."

Pastor Johnathan then walks through two of Satan's primary strategies against us: confusion and accusation. Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:4, he explains that Satan has "blinded the minds of those who don't believe," bringing spiritual ignorance into our marriages, our understanding of authority, and even our identities. As the accuser, Satan bottles up our past sins and holds them up as a mirror, trying to convince us that our failures define us. But Pastor Johnathan reminds us that the moment the enemy accuses, Jesus stands as our intercessor — and his blood has already covered it.

The sermon closes with a powerful call to true repentance rather than mere remorse. Remorse keeps us in the depths, but godly sorrow leads us to turn from sin and run to Adonai with our whole hearts. As 1 John 1:9 promises, "If we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness." The promise has come in Jesus Christ, and because of his unfailing love and full redemption, we no longer have to wear our sin, agree with the accuser, or live in the depths. We are set apart, and today is the day to step into that new identity.