From Pastor Keseley's Desk: You have JOY

Last Sunday we began a seven-week sermon series titled “God Knows Us Inside and Out.” Together, we will explore what it means that God knows us inside and out as we look at the emotions that dwell inside of us and exude out of us – joy, sadness, anger, disgust, fear and anxiety. The movie Inside Out brought these emotions to life as characters operating a control board in our brains. Now, we will look at them through the lens of what means for these emotions to be created by God, known by God and part of the way we were woven together to be made in God’s image. Our emotions – all of them – are created by God for good.

Today’s emotion is JOY. In our scripture we will hear that we are created for JOY. JOY is woven into our beings. What it might look like to work under the assumption that we have JOY. You - no matter what your current life circumstance - have JOY. Start thinking now about how that shift in understanding of our lived reality might transform you.

It’s fitting that JOY is our emotion for the day because we are joyfully celebrating the 10th anniversary of ministry for Dr. David Chavez. Over the course of the past decade, David has grown our music, worship and technology ministry in huge ways.

We would not be the church we are today without David’s leadership. He was the driving force that got us up and running for pandemic livestream worship.

Here’s to the next 10 years of making music, worshiping God and Abiding Together!