“Fasting does not force God’s hand, fasting simply prepares our hearts for his answer.”

You're out to dinner with your date. She's the love of your life. You've both been waiting for this night out. You sit, you gaze into her eyes and just then you realize the "big game" is on the TV behind you. Nothing wrong with watching a big game in and of itself. It's just wrong now. Why? When you agreed to dinner you proverbially agreed to a "non-compete clause." We've all been there. In this series, we want to look at the ways we do this on a regular basis with God. Through money, sex, and power, we draw our focus away from God. God deserves a non-compete.

Sabbath is perhaps one of the most confusing aspects of the Christian walk. Why? We do not live in a society very respectful of Sabbath rest. In this series, we want to look at how Jesus handled Sabbath in religious culture and in the Roman culture not friendly to disconnecting with the purposes of connecting with God. In this series we will learn to cease so we can persist.