Reset

Do you remember the original Super Mario Brothers games? If so, you have good and bad memories of the infamous reset button on the Nintedo console! If you were making progress on a new level and your little sister hit the reset button out of meanness, you discovered the horrors of starting over. On the other hand, if you were about to watch Mario plummet to his demise in a pit of lava, you could hit the reset button yourself and avoid watching your hero's death. You discovered the joy of starting over.

"Reset" is JLM's look at this starting over process. We're currently resetting ministries and the people who fill those roles. We're reexamining our level of excitement and passion for the things we've been involved in. Not as excited as you used to be? Hit reset. Have another direction you'd like to go in life and ministry? Hit reset.

The reset button can be dreadful or exciting. We're choosing to change in a positive way and see the opportunity for a new life as an exciting event in our lives! God's reset button? "If any man be in Christ he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Signs of New Life

Our current series, just in time for Spring, is called Signs of New Life. It's a series of messages and Bible studies dedicated to studying the New Life that Jesus Christ brings. Jesus once said, "These signs shall follow them that believe..." and indicated that there were miracles, signs, and wonders that would be part of the Christian church. Here's a list of the messages in the series:

1) Modern-Day Miracles (See previous blog for details)
2) Going Green (Offering an Alternative to People Paying a High Price for Their Life Choices)
3) Haven't Been There, Haven't Done That, Haven't Got the T-Shirt (Seeking More
from God? God can Still Blow Your Mind!)
4) Consumed (Everyone will be Consumed by Something. Why not Let it be the Spirit of a
God Who wants the Best for You?)
5) Reset (God has a Reset Button for Our Life When We're Headed in the Wrong Direction.
"If any man be in Christ he is a new creature. Old things are passed away, behold all things
are become new.")
6) Stuck Outside (Everything God did, Everything Jesus Accomplished, was for the Purpose
of Bringing People on the Outside to the Inside; to Call People who felt Distant from God to
a Close Relationship with Him.)
7) Oh What a Change! (The Greatest Agent of Change in This World is the Holy Spirit.
When a Positive Change Occurs in Your Life, Something You Couldn't Possibly Do on Your
Own, God Gets the Glory)