Continuing in our message series, What Do You Think About God? Dean discusses the justice of God and how He must punish sin, but how He also shows us mercy and does not want to punish us. In the ultimate act of justice and mercy, God gave His Son, the only One good enough to appease God’s wrath and take on the punishment that we deserve.

Whenever we put an idol above, or ahead of, God, we expect it to do something for us. But as Troy shares in this week's message, a regular person, place, or thing can never give us salvation, or true hope or peace or joy, among other things.

Only the Son, Jesus, is truly like the Father, God, but He is working to make us more like Himself. Although we’re not like God in the way we were when He created us in His image, He is working to heal, restore, and renew us back into that image.

To kick off our new message series, Troy reminds us how important it is to believe in who God has revealed Himself to be, not on some idea we have about Him, and not as though He is just a little “better version” of us.

Thinking about the Labor Day holiday weekend, it may sound ironic, but when we get some physical, mental, and emotional rest, we’re actually more productive in our work and in the other things we need to get done. Work is important, but it's not most important. And even though we're made to work, we also need to take a break.