Second Baptist Church Houston

There's a civil war raging inside each of us between good and evil. God calls us to freedom, not to indulge selfish desires, but to love and serve others. Stay on the offense: worship, walk in community, and win others to Christ. Feed the good wolf within you.

Running the race of grace: Start with the cross, stay fueled by prayer, crash through quitting points. When you hit the wall, surrender to God. Proclaim His goodness to others. Fix your eyes on Jesus—He'll lead you home. Don't focus on failures; focus on the Finisher.

Are you truly free? Freedom isn't doing whatever we want, but being set free from what enslaves us. Listen to God, lean into His grace, and live a life of love. In Christ, we find true freedom.

Freedom starts with resting in Christ, not striving. We're children of promise, not slaves to the law. Stop flexing, start resting. Your acceptance comes from God's grace, not your performance. Rest in His love, His finished work. You're good enough. You're loved. That's true freedom.

To someone in your life, you're the closest thing to God that they've got. So what is our responsibility as followers of Christ to the lost among us? The gospel is for people who are broken, fallen, and need to be healed and restored and put on a path with God. And we must meet them where they are to share the gospel and win them to Christ.

We can use technology in so many marvelous ways but many times our technology leaves us feeling disconnected. Anxiety, loneliness, and a sense of disconnection can come from our desire to be connected in ways that don't deliver the goods. Christianity is not a solo sport. God designed us to live with Him in community with like-minded others. Learn ways to find the community you’ve been seeking.

Water is essential to us as human beings. We have to have water or we can't exist. But most of us have a “water” problem because we are suffering from spiritual dehydration. We have a thirst of the soul. Why are we dehydrated? Why do we constantly thirst? Find the answers in the only One who quenches our thirst and sets us free from things that leave us unsatisfied.

As a follower of God or someone seeking to know God, it's all about worship. As human beings, it's inescapable - we are worshiping creatures. And what we put at the center of our life is what we worship. But God designed us to worship Him alone so what is true worship? Why is it so important? How do we worship & what happens when we make worship a priority?