Connexus Church Audio Podcast

In relationships, we often believe if we find the right person it will make everything right. So we ask ourselves, "Is this the right person for me?" Maybe we need to be asking a different question—a question that shifts our focus from seeking the right kind of person to becoming the right kind of person.

If you were designed by God and sin marred that design, how do you push past those limits to reach your potential? The answer is, surprisingly, through the redemptive work of Jesus. Following Jesus doesn't just change eternity, it changes your present. The path to spiritual and emotional health is the key to redeeming the image of God in you.

So you were created by God to be a certain way, but somehow sin got in the way. You have great intentions, but they're difficult to realize. You try your best, but you fail. What gives? Were your personality flaws part of God's design? Is this just how He made you? When sin entered the picture, so did un-health. And as we'll see this week, lurking beneath your wiring is a wound.

So...why isn't everyone a little more like you? The world would be a better place, would it not? Apparently, not. When God designed humankind, he pronounced his work to be very good. However, as the Enneagram reveals, He didn't make us all the same. Maybe the differences aren't deficiencies, they're design.

The Enneagram is an ancient personality type profile, and over the last two years Ian Morgan Cron's book, The Road Back To You, has helped several hundred thousands of people discover what their number means. Ian talks to Carey about how the Enneagram can help grow your self-awareness and how to reduce conflict at work and at home by understanding how different personality types work. They also discuss the Enneagram as a spiritual growth tool.

Resolutions are a decision to put in some extra effort to achieve a goal. But when it comes to our faith, often growth comes faster when we step out into what God calls us to - taking a risk more so than making a resolution. Why is that? Where does reading scripture and prayer fit into this? What would 2020 look like if you chose to "step out of the boat"?

The Church is remarkable. And against all odds, it changed the world. There is still a great deal that needs changing. By God's grace and with your help, perhaps we can be a small part of bringing about that change.

You might sometimes feel like life, fate, and even God are against you. What if this Christmas you discovered a God who is FOR you?

God's grace to us is an invitation to be amazing. It's our chance to extend to others what God has freely extended to us. But while most of us are full of something . . . it's usually not grace. So what are you full of? And what would it take for you to give someone what they don't expect? Or deserve?

The kingdom of God is characterized by unsettling generosity —the kind of generosity that gives the undeserving what they don't deserve and regardless of how unright we've been, makes us right with God. So what do we do when we're faced with this math that doesn't add up? And how do we respond to this unfair, unsettling system that Jesus came to invite us into?