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God's heart cry is for intimacy, to be fully known and fully accepted simultaneously. Our souls cry out for that state of life; we long for it. How can we attain such a relationship with God? Where do we falsely define God? What are some of our beliefs holding us back? This series goal is to help identify truths that will set you free for an intimacy with God.

When we talk about the bigness of God, we tend to limit ourselves to words that have vague interpretations: omnipresence, omniscience, immutable, etc. These are theologian's attempts to describe the bigness of God. This series focuses on the aspects of God that are so huge they are impossible for a human to understand. Let's look at several different facets showing God's heart to connect to humanity. Through this, we aim start feeling how God feels about us.

Few of the spiritual disciplines that all Christians are called to follow are as effective and important as prayer. Understand that there is a difference between heart-felt prayer and a merely repeating a ritual at every meal and church service. Prayer is an expression of the heart; spoken in obedience before the Father.

Discover the greatness of God's salvation by examining Hebraic imagery behind deliverance. What does it really mean to be "born again"? Let's take a very close look at the salvific imagery found in ancient Hebraic culture, and then correlate it to the salvation that God has extended to his children.

Ups and downs are just a normal part of life. Everyone will experience highs emotionally, financially, relationally and vocationally as well as lows in those areas. This series examines God's will and strategies to move you from the lows back to the highs by empowering you in the lows to believe that better days are yet ahead. Once you've completed this series you will be equipped to live more emotionally balanced, to always make the right first move and to create a positive environment of faith.

In this series we will look at the idea that the things that we think of as huge problems to society actually remove our focus from the real issues that can destroy a community. We have unrequited and uncensored vices in our heart; flaws that can't be made illegal, such as pride, lust, envy, gluttony, greed, anger and slothfulness. It's not possible to legislate the contents of a person's heart. These things have to be dealt with by each of us on the inside.