His love for us doesn’t rest on our performance, our rightness, or the many other ways we often define ourselves or measure our worth or lovability. His love for us is determined by our identity- we are his.

So how does the Bible answer what does it mean to be human? To be made in the image of God. This is a phrase church people use a lot, and I think it can lose its meaning. What does it mean to be the image and likeness of God? 

“Oh great God, be small enough to hear me now,”  I cried out through tears.  Be small enough to hear my ache, my hurt, my fear; be small enough to meet me here.  And again and again, my Jesus made himself small, to meet me in my smallness, in my fear, in my doubt.

We can look back at the Scriptures which followed after Adam and Eve were banished from the garden and see that the Lord never did give up on his creation. He has never taken his eye off what he made for his purposes. As his eye is ever on the sparrow, it is on mankind.

At our Partners' Dinner last night, we announced an easy little fundraiser - Sponsor a Chair! Help us get the sanctuary chairs we need for the new building by giving $40 per chair.

The question “How are we made right with God?” has been the focus of my study recently. Since I’ve been a Christ-follower for many years, this question and its answer seemed to me elementary and simple. Even if you haven’t considered the question or its implications, it’s easy to give the Sunday School answer (Jesus!) and go on about your day, likely not giving it much more thought.

New City Church Macon is seeking a Next Gen Director who will lead our children and youth ministries, covering birth-12th grade, and ensure strategic alignment between both ministry areas.

Letting my mouth say what my heart felt seemed like heresy. After so many years of walking with the Lord, could I even ask such a question? But as wave after wave crashed over those I loved, I had real and hard questions.

No matter what I experience, we worship the God who paints the sunrise in the sky, perfectly blending light and color and beauty together as a gift for us each day as an invitation to remember who He is and what He has done.

The practice of meditation involves a slow, thoughtful, curious consideration of the Words of Scripture. Read about this helpful tool and a short meditation on Psalm 23.

Grasping the basic relationship between what Christ has already done, the grace given to us through Him, what the Spirit is doing in us now, and what to make of our good works can greatly impact our lives. A biblical understanding of these keeps us from so many errors which threaten to rob God of the glory of His grace to us while also making our lives fruitless. 

On the outside, it looks like diligently working hard, taking control of my task list with a frenzy, and brushing off compliments. But on the inside, it looks like working in a frenzy to prove a point, taking control because no one else will do it like I can, and being agitated that the acknowledgment didn’t come quicker.