We live in a world where everyone is trying to find their true self. The problem is that the closer you are to finding your true self the closer you get to realizing there is something desperately wrong. Why not go to the One who made you. You are made to be awesome. Listen in, find out who you are created to be, and how to get there.

Everyone suffers. Sometimes we suffer for doing the right thing. Sometimes even with God on our side, bad things happen. We feel the pain; we feel the sadness; we feel the sorrow. But without diminishing the pain we feel Christ shows us the benefit and joy in suffering through looking at the things His suffering accomplished.

Often used to tell us how we are to behave, 1 Peter will often give us the impossible task of being perfect. When we try to be Holy as He is Holy we can be met with frustration and discouragement. While the standard is still there it can only be obtained one way – the Blood of Jesus. Remember the letter starts by saying to believers, “Grace and peace be multiplied to you.”

Often as Christians we hear a message on hope and put a pressure on ourselves to “smile anyway.” This is not that message. The truth is there are sorrows… we should feel sorrowful. There are reasons to grieve, we should grieve. However, the victory over all that is the hope that Jesus gave us through His resurrection…. by the way I know the name is Nicodemas.

In these disturbing times I have asked myself, if there was one message left to speak to the masses, what would do I think God would want be to preach, this is it…. The Easter Message. God created humanity to be awesome. Humanity was tricked and blew it. Because or that there is great penalty. Christ came to pay the penalty and reunite us to God and to put us on a path to what we were created to be. Because He Rose…. We Rise!