Churches in Leawood

“Some of us need to emotionally, spiritually, mentally stop making that person, whether it's a parent, a sibling, a child, or even a spouse, we need to stop making them our problem to solve. You can't solve them. Leave them with God Even while we might be trying to care for them, sandwiched in while we're caring for others, we need in some situations to just leave them with God.”

“God wants us to forgive because forgiveness is what frees us. Forgiveness isn't principally for the person we're forgiving. Forgiveness is principally for us. It's it's what frees us moment by moment and and day by day. God invites us to choose forgiveness by God's strength as often as the offense or the offender comes to our minds, whether that's three times a year or 30 times a day, God invites us to make this decision because it is our doorway out of the pain and the bitterness.”

“Joseph's story reminds us of the ways in which families can hurt one another and offers us a call to seek to be reconciled to families, to our family members where possible. But it also teaches us that when we go through seasons that are just hard, prolonged adversity through the fire or through the flood, God is with us. And sometimes, that's all we have. But because of God's relentless faithfulness, God will see that we get through, and God will be for us everything that we need.”