Posts from April 2025

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. – 2 Corinthians 12:9 When we offer our obedience out of love for God, we allow his grace to perfect our weakness. It is from this place of weakness that we share in his strength, and it is from his strength that we are fruitful. The…

As we have learned over the past couple of weeks, the antidote to the worries of this life is prayer. Prayer seems to be the answer to all things and God, in His wisdom, teaches us how to pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.Your kingdom come.Your will be doneOn earth as it is in heaven.3 Give us today our daily bread.4 And forgive us our debts,as we also have forgiven our debtors.And lead us not into temptation,But deliver us from the evil one.” For…

Ryan’s message on Sunday offered us an example of what it may look like being a part of God’s plans. Using the analogy of a tapestry, he explained how each string was woven into a cloth to make for a unique design and big picture. We often get to marvel at the intricate designs and pictures of tapestries that people have created, but we rarely get to witness the process. I would imagine that it would be challenging and take…

Bless the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! He has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing that comes from heaven. 4 God chose us in Christ to be holy and blameless in God’s presence before the creation of the world. 5 God destined us to be his adopted children through Jesus Christ because of his love. This was according to his goodwill and plan 6 and to honor his glorious grace that he has given to us freely through the Son whom…

I generally think that questioning your belief systems is a good thing, because it allows you to test your beliefs and hopefully give you a stronger belief system. At the moment, I’ve been wrestling with my experiences with God and my Christian faith versus the reasoning of people who’ve been in the church for a while, some since childhood, and have “lost their faith.” I’ve definitely had encounters and moments with God that have made Him real to me, but…

It seems as though whenever you turn on the tv or browse the internet for the latest news, the world seems to be in complete chaos. Whether its uncertainty in the economy, wars, rumors of wars, conflicts, frequency and intensity of natural disasters (hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and tsunamis), the world seems to be in complete chaos and full of troubles. As I was seeking the Lord about this, I felt led to Matthew 16:33:  “I have told you these things, so…

As we have learned and continue to learn, one of the main killers of fruitfulness is the “worries of this life”. It is what Jesus calls one of the “thorns” in the parable of the seeds and a thorn that causes growing and mature seeds to become fruitless. As the family of Lifespring, we recognize that God is asking us to not just be mature, but to be fruitful. Therefore, we need to be on guard to fight against anything…

Dear LifeSpring Family, I’ve been memorizing scripture lately, and I wanted to share two verses that have been particularly impactful for me, especially since they share the same chapter and verse: “For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” – John 1:16-17 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes,…

The world likes to tell us what is “normal”. Whether it is the pristine condition of a home that holds a family of six or the highlight reel of someone’s third vacation of the year on your feed, the career growth expectations or the unwritten agenda for achieving certain milestones by a certain age, the world tells us that life is all about being on top and success is determined by how much you have achieved and how much you…

We were blessed last weekend to have Shawn and Adib from the Jesus Network come and share with us about their journey in working with refugees. As you may know, Lifespring is sponsoring two refugee families who are currently in Turkiye. We are just at the beginning of our journey as we learn about sponsorship and how to do it well. Shawn and Adib have experience with sponsoring over 50 families, and had plenty of wisdom to share with us.…

From now until June, something I’m doing is helping the candidates in our church prepare for baptism. Baptism is a really significant moment in our spiritual lives, one where we make a public profession of our faith by participating in something that we have done since the very beginning of Christianity. Even Jesus was baptized in Matthew 3:13-17. You may remember your own baptism and what that was like. As we get closer to Easter this month, I think about baptism…

On Sunday, I was encouraged by the testimony of Albert Tai in how he did the right thing and followed his convictions. I’m sure that we can think of many times in our lives where we accidentally did something or made a mistake and could easily “get away with it” or sweep it under the rug and no one would know. But Albert demonstrated the costs it sometimes takes to live a life of fruitfulness. Although it cost Albert $600…