Growing People, Multiplying Leaders

E55 Guarding Your Heart Through Life's Storms

Matters of the Heart - Week 5

3 years ago

Storms are times of spiritual darkness and doubt. Storms create a feeling of disorientation and confusion. These are times when we feel as through God is hiding His face from us! Should we interpret the storm as a sign of God’s displeasure or absence? Does the sun keep on its course even when the skies are gray and overcast? Does the sun still shine even when I cannot see it? Could not the same be said of the everlasting love and faithfulness of God?! We are foolish to conclude in December that the flowers that were blooming in May are no longer there! We cannot see them; it’s not their season. Even so, let’s strengthen our hearts with the goodness of God in the midst of life’s storms!

Launching in 1981 as just 30 people in a living room in Northwest Indiana, Living Stones has grown into a vibrant multi-generational church family. Stones are a product of God the Creator — formed in nature and no two are alike. As we come to faith in Jesus Christ, scripture tells us that we are like living stones in the hand of God and He is using us to build up a spiritual house. Our foundation was built on the work of nurturing and restoring healthy, biblical marriages. In continuing that mission, everything we do here at Living Stones is centered around loving, healing, and equipping individuals and families to grow into a greater likeness of Christ Jesus! By the Holy Spirit, we exist today to Renew Hearts, Restore Homes, Reform Culture and Reach the Nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4-5 ”As you come to him who is the Living Stone — he was rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious — you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house.” We are a family — misfits, hypocrites, creatives, addicts, reformers, over-churched, unchurched, wanderers — each of us a stone, uniquely crafted by the hand of God, made alive through Jesus, and now living by the power of the Holy Spirit. Together, we are Living Stones.