What would you do if the door was closed and someone's eternity was on the line?

In Mark 2:1-12, four friends refuse to take "no room" for an answer. They climb a roof, tear it open, and lower their paralyzed friend directly in front of Jesus and Jesus responds to their faith with forgiveness and healing.

Because someone went to extraordinary lengths to get you to Jesus, now it's your turn. Tear the roof off. Someone's forever is waiting on the other side of your desperate faith.

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What's really choking your faith? Not the big stuff...the et cetera. The thorns that were already in your heart before your phone became the best fertilizer they've ever had.

Day One of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting, Pastor Léonce opens Mark 4:1–20 and the parable of the soils, landing hard on the thorny ground. This soil never said no to Jesus. It just never said no to anything else, either. He names three false promises your devices make and shows exactly how they map onto the three thorns Jesus warned about.

But it's not a shame sermon. Jesus was forsaken so you'd never have to earn His attention again. And He's never once been distracted from you. Your attention is your soil. Cleared ground is cleared ground. He's ready to plant something in it.

Open today's Prayer Guide in the United Church app and choose your entry point into the fast. Download the app at https://united.online/nextsteps

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What if the ache you're carrying isn't proof something's wrong with you, but proof you were made for more?

Pastor Léonce takes us to ancient Athens, where Paul found an altar "to an unknown god" in the most impressive city on earth. Atlanta, we're that city, chasing achievement that promises to fill the ache but only makes it echo louder.

The gospel isn't "try harder to find God." It's that He's been pursuing you all along and took the name Jesus to climb down to the one altar you could never scale.

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