Point of Grace Online Worship - October 12, 2025

Point of Grace Worship 10.12.25  “Experience Jesus. Really.”  Part 2  

Jesus is our Refuge – As we experience His Presence, Truth and Love we experience His Refuge

“Finding Refuge, Strength and Wonder Through Everyday Encounters with God”

Psalm 91:1-2
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Psalm 62:5-8
Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.
Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.
Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

We need refuge.

John 15:4-11
Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.  If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.  I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

How?

We get to:

-        Actively engage the refuge God has already given. Notice the verbs.

-        Relearn the lost art of lingering… linger in prayer … linger over His Word… linger in His presence.

-        Set the table with an opening prayer like,
“Jesus, I give you everyone and everything… “(repeat several times naming people and things to relinquish)
 Restore my union with You, Jesus, restore our union.
 Come Holy Spirit, fill me afresh.”(Ask the Holy Spirit for His presence and help as you pray.)

-        Linger with Jesus, repeating declarations of His Truth and His Love while listening and receiving the refuge of His Presence.

Our heart and soul are restored through union with Christ – as we take refuge in Him. 
It is our greatest need in the hour we now live.

In October we are invited into a deeper experience of Jesus.

-        Four weekly sermons and themes

-        A daily guided prayer experience (am and pm)

    Download the “One Minute Pause” app and go to the “Experience Jesus” program

-        Read the book, “Experiencing Jesus. Really.”

-        Some of our Grow Groups are taking this journey in community.

WHO I AM IN CHRIST – Taking Refuge in the Truth and Love of God 

I AM ACCEPTED...

• I am a lavishly loved child of God.  (John 1:12, 1 Jn 3:1)
• As a disciple, I am a friend of Jesus Christ. (John 15:15)
• I have been justified (declared righteous). (Romans 5:1)
• I am united with the Lord, and I am one with Him in spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:17)
• I have been bought with a price and I belong to God. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
• I am a member of Christ's body. (1 Corinthians 12:27)
• I have been chosen by God and adopted as His child. (Ephesians 1:3-8)
• I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins. (Colossians 1:13-14)
• I am complete in Christ. (Colossians 2:9-10)
• I have direct access to the throne of grace through Jesus Christ. (Hebrews 4:14-16)

I AM SECURE...

• I am free from condemnation. (Romans 8:1-2)
• I am assured that God works for my good in all circumstances. (Romans 8:28)
• I am free from any condemnation against me and cannot be separated from the love of God. (Romans 8:31-39)
• I have been established, anointed and sealed by God. (2 Corinthians 1:21-22)
• I am hidden with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:1-4)
• I am confident that God will complete the good work He started in me. (Philippians 1:6)
• I am a citizen of heaven. (Philippians 3:20)
• I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:10)
• I am born of God and the evil one cannot touch me. (1 John 5:18)

I AM SIGNIFICANT...

• I am a branch of Jesus Christ, the true vine, and a channel of His life. (John 15:5)
• I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit. (John 15:16)
• I am God's temple. (1 Corinthians 3:16)
• I am a minister of reconciliation for God. (2 Corinthians 5:17-21)
• I am seated with Jesus Christ in the heavenly realm. (Ephesians 2:6)
• I am God's workmanship. (Ephesians 2:10)
• I may approach God with freedom and confidence. (Ephesians 3:12)
• I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)

(adapted from the book by Neil Anderson, Victory in Christ)

Point of Grace Online Worship - October 5, 2025

Point of Grace Worship 10.5.25  “Experience Jesus. Really.”  Part 1 

Am I a Disciple of the Internet?

“Repeated processes shape the soul; this has been core to discipleship for millennia.
It was inevitable that years of Internet life would shape our souls whether we wanted it or not.  As a friend said, ‘It’s not that we’ve done something wrong; something wrong has been done to us.’

Discipleship to the Internet has shaped our soul
  -to expect immediate answers to your questions,
  -given you a deep suspicion to all forms of mystery,
  -fueled your addiction that the ‘practical’ is the real stuff of life,
  -while eroding your confidence that you can know anything for certain because
    yesterday’s facts are savagely overturned.

We are all worn out from this way of operating in the world because there is not life in it. 
There is no life in it.
No wonder people have a hard time ‘experiencing’ Jesus….”  Experience Jesus. Really. By John Eldridge 

Luke 11:38-42
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.  She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked,
 “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 
 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.
Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Jesus reorients life so it is oriented around the experience of Him who leads us

from “many-ness” to “one-ness”
            from “scattered” to “gathered”
            from “fragmented” to “wholeness”
            from “many gods” to “One God”
            from “more content” to “One truth”
            from “many worries” to “one peace”
            from “many anxieties” to “one refuge”
            from “many ……..” to “one ……..”

Maturing in the fullness of life in Jesus is a journey to be taken.

In October we are invited into a deeper experience of life with Jesus.

-        Four weekly sermons and themes

-        A daily guided prayer experience (am and pm)

    Download the “One Minute Pause” app  and go to the “Experience Jesus” program

-        Read the book, “Experiencing Jesus. Really.”

-        Some of our Grow Groups are taking this journey in community.

Point of Grace Online Worship - September 28, 2025

Point of Grace Worship 9.28.25      “You are Invited … into His beautiful Kingdom” Pt. 4

Part 4 – God’s Kingdom Community – The Beauty of Belonging

We all know what it feels like to “Belong” … to fit in … to have our presence legitimized.

We also know times when we didn’t “belong” … didn’t fit in … our presence was not wanted.

“the other”

God responds to a broken divided world with “philoxenia”!

Literally “love for the stranger” – hospitality!

Exodus 22:21  “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

Leviticus 19:33-34  “‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

We all began our human existence as “strangers” in need of unconditional welcome!

“Loving the Stranger” is the way of Jesus … it is the way of the community that bears His Name!

“The entire ministry of Jesus is appropriately captured in the phrase ‘divine hospitality to the stranger and sinner’  Jesus’ ministry was the rescuing love and welcome of God on display.  Jesus posture was one of inclusion and embrace.  He created a portal of heavens welcome for those who had been pushed out and shunned.” The Beautiful Resistance

1 Peter 2:10  10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Ephesians 2:14-22   14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, … His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.  18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

What a dream for His Kingdom community – a place of “belonging” for all people.

We all were in “the other” group at one time …

but by the power of the ministry, cross and resurrection of Jesus

what was “the other” can now become “one another”.

1 John 4:11-12
11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 
12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Can you imagine a “one another” community of people

committed to the “life” and “lifestyle” of philoxenia in Jesus name!

It would be a place of belonging!

Point of Grace Online Worship - September 21, 2025

Point of Grace Worship 9.21.25      “You are Invited … into His beautiful Kingdom” Pt. 3

Part 3 – God’s Kingdom Rescue from Worry and Anxiety

Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

“… Your heavenly Father knows you need them…”

Jesus shifts our focus from “worry over ‘real needs’ being met” to the Presence and Promises of the Father!

Jesus is loving us in these words by legitimizing our needs while shifting our focus onto the role the Father has in meeting our needs.  And His loving willingness to do so.

“ 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Jesus gives us a clear command for all of life but especially when worry and anxiety rise up. 
He says to “first” … “seek His Kingdom”. 
Both as a life priority and as a “go to” reality “seeking His Kingdom” is first! 
Sometimes when we are anxious, being told the “first” thing to do is such a rescue.

Focus on the promises in order to fulfill the command.

“34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

Prayer and “Seeking His Kingdom Reign”

Helpful prayer phrases to start with:

- “Jesus” ……….” “I need You!” …….. “Help me Jesus!”

- “Your Kingdom Come…over me and my worry about …”

“6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 
7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, 
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 
Philippians 4:6-7

Focus on the Father’s Presence and Promises   

- I can come with “anything” and “everything”!

- “the Peace of God …  will guard Your heart and mind in Christ Jesus”

Seek His Kingdom    

- Prayer              (talk it over – name the anxieties)
- Petition            (What is my “ask” … What do I think I need?”      
- Thanksgiving  (Give thanks to God for His goodness in the situation.)

Receive His Peace  

“Jesus, I receive You and Your peace in this situation!”      

Point of Grace Online Worship - September 14, 2025

Point of Grace Worship 9.14.25      “You are Invited … into His beautiful Kingdom” Pt. 2 

Part 1 - The King of the Kingdom –
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened … for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” – Jesus (Matthew 11)

Part 2 – Life in the Kingdom
Colossians 1:13-14 “13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”

Two Beautiful Kingdom Realties that Rescue Us

Love and Forgiveness

“… into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” Col. 1:13-14

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  John 3:16

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1 John 3:1

15 All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 17 And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect.  1 John 4

10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1John 4

7 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.  2 Cor. 5

12 And forgive us our (sin) debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors…….
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.  Matthew 6

The Beautiful Rescue

God’s Love and Forgiveness gives me identity, that I receive by faith,
as a “Beloved and Forgiven Son/Daughter” of God. 

By faith,

-        I am Loved by my Father in Heaven

-        I am Forgiven, Redeemed and Restored in my relationship with my Father through Jesus,

-        I am empowered by the Holy Spirit in me to take refuge in the Love and Forgiveness of God renouncing all Kingdom of Darkness temptations to hate, belittle, be bitter, take offense, hold on to unforgiveness and justify the same.

-        “I forgive everyone and everything” in the name of Jesus.

Point of Grace Online Worship - September 7, 2025

Point of Grace Worship 9.7.25        “You are Invited … into His beautiful Kingdom” Pt. 1

The King of the Kingdom

Mark 1:14-18
14 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. 
15 “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” 16 As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 17 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 18 At once they left their nets and followed him.

Why the urgency?

Colossians 1:13-14 “13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”

“From God’s perspective there are only two kingdoms, or “countries”, in this universe…
There is God’s Kingdom or satan’s.  That’s it.  Those are Your choices.
I think this will be somewhat of an epiphany for most of you.”
John Eldridge - Experience Jesus. Really.

“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”

Matthew 11:28-30 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Phillipians 2:5-8
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant,
    being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!

“The beauty of the incarnation is exuding with humility.  If the incarnation is the masterpiece, radical humility is the ethos.  One cannot look at this piece of art, read this story, listen to its beautiful tune and not smell taste hear and see humility.  This is a profound and progressive step down into greater lowliness.  He is God, but did not grasp at this, so He came as man… but not just as a man (like a rock star arriving to be worshipped) but as a bond-servant.  And not just a servant but one that would …. well … be obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross.”
(Zach Meerkreebs, Lower)

Just gaze at the stunning beauty of Christ’s humility.
His “gentle and humble” heart in action. 
His heart is the safest place in the universe.

Point of Grace Online Worship - August 31, 2025

THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES - PART TWO

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR TIME

Point of Grace - Pflugerville, Texas

August 31, 2025 

INTRODUCTION

Ecclesiastes 1:2 and 12:8

“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!” 

I.                     ____________________ THAT GOD HAS A ____________________ FOR EVERY TIME 

Ecclesiastes 3:1

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: 

Ecclesiastes 3:2-8

…a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.  

Ecclesiastes 3:9-11a

What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. 

Romans 8:28 (TPT)

We are convinced that every detail in our lives is continually woven together for good.

 The Point:

STAY _____________________! 

II.                  _____________________ YOUR _________________ IN GOD THROUGH ALL TIMES  

Ecclesiastes 3:11b

He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 

Ecclesiastes 3:11b (LB)

Though God has planted eternity in the hearts of men, even so, man cannot see the whole scope of God’s work, from beginning to end. 

John 13:7

You do not realize what I am doing, but later you will understand.  

2 Corinthians 1:9

This happened so that we might learn to trust not in ourselves, but in God.

The Point:

KEEP ______________________!  

III.                ___________________ YOURSELF TO DOING _____________ AT THE PRESENT TIME 

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13

I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.  

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.  

The Point:

DO ___________________ TODAY! 

Proverbs 3:27 (GN)

Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it.  

Ecclesiastes 3:14:

I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing can be taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him. 

IV.                ___________________ GIVING GOD AN __________________ AT THE END OF TIME  

Ecclesiastes 3:15-17

Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. 16 And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgement—wickedness was there, the place of justice—wickedness was there. I thought in my heart, “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.  

Romans 14:12

So each of us will give an account of himself to God.  

Matthew 25:23

Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a little, I will make you faithful over much. Enter into the joy of your Master!  

The Point:

BE _____________________________!

 Ephesians 5:15-16 (Phil)

Live life, then, with a due sense of responsibility, not as ones who don’t know the meaning of life, but as those who do. Make the best use of your time.

Point of Grace Online Worship - August 24, 2025

Point of Grace Worship 8.10.25 Seeking Wisdom – Part 6 “ Ecclesiastes – Part 1 What is the Meaning of Life?” 

“What is the Meaning of Life?”

Three Major Truths Found in the Wisdom Books…

#1 - We all need WISDOM

#2 - We all need JESUS

#3 - We all need HUMILITY 

The Fear of the Lord

“A relationship of awe and reverence for God with deep relational love, trust and submission.”  

Proverbs 9:10

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 

WHAT IS THE MEANING—THE WHOLE POINT—OF LIFE? 

Our First Guest: THE AUTHOR OF THE ECCLESIASTES  

Ecclesiastes 1:1 

The words of the Teacher, a son of David, king in Jerusalem: 

Our Second Guest: THE TEACHER  

Qoheleth 

Ekklesia 

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Meaningless! Meaningless!’” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!’” 

Ecclesiastes 12:8

“Meaningless! Meaningless!’” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!” 

Hevel 

Ecclesiastes 1:2-11

“Meaningless! Meaningless,” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!” 3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever….  

5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. 8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say…. 

The eye never has enough seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. 9 What has been will be again; what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time….  

11 There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.  

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the  wind. 

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. 

A Central Message of the Book of Ecclesiastes:

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A LIFE OF LASTING, UNSHAKABLE MEANING, PURPOSE, IDENTITY, CONTENTMENT, JOY AND PEACE IF YOU ONLY LOOK “UNDER THE SUN” 

Real Life is Not Found Horizontally but Vertically—“Above the Sun” 

1 Corinthians 1:24

…the Power of God and the Wisdom of God 

Colossians 1:17-18

He is before all things and in him all things hold together…so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them.” 

Ecclesiastes 12:6-7

Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well, 7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who made it. 

Ephesians 1:4-5,10 (LB)

Long ago, even before He made the world, God chose us to be His very own through what Christ would do for us with His love. 5 His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by sending Jesus Christ to die for us. And He did this because He wanted to…10 And this was His purpose: that when the time is right He will gather us all together to be with Him in Christ forever.  

Why Did God Make You?

GOD MADE YOU TO LOVE HIM AND LIVE WITH HIM FOREVER! 

Ecclesiastes 3:10

God has also set eternity in the hearts of men. 

Ecclesiastes 12:9-14

Not only was the Teacher wise, but also he imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. 10 The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true. 11 The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one Shepherd. 12 Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. 13 Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God will bring every deed into judgement, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. 

John 10: 10-11

I have come that you may have life and have it abundantly. 11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays his life down for the sheep. 

Colossians 3:1-4

Since then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you, died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.