What if the greatest impact you could ever have for the Kingdom of God happens right inside your own home?

You don’t have to be a preacher, missionary, or evangelist to change someone’s life. In fact, some of your greatest opportunities to reveal God are with the people closest to you: your spouse, your children, and your grandchildren.

Here’s something I want you to consider. Your family is learning what God is like, not just from what you tell them about Him, but from how you live, how you love, and how you treat them.

God created us in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:26). That means we were created to represent Him and reveal His true character and nature. But here’s where many people miss it. We get so focused on teaching our families how to behave that we overlook the importance of showing them what God is really like.

In this episode, I’m going to help you understand how to make your relationship with Jesus a natural part of your family life. You’ll begin to see how everyday conversations, personal experiences, and the way you respond to life’s challenges can become opportunities to reveal God’s love, goodness, and character.

You don’t have to pressure your family, force spiritual conversations, or make everyone conform to your expectations. As you put on the image of God through Jesus Christ, His character can begin to flow naturally through your life and influence the people around you.

Join me, and learn how to make your home a place where the people you love can experience what God is really like.

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Becoming Who You Were Created to Be

What if your highest calling isn’t primarily about what you do for God, but about who you become as you represent Him in this world?

From the beginning, God revealed His purpose for mankind: “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). We were created to represent God on the earth—to reveal His character, nature, and heart through the way we live.

In In His Image, I take you back to God’s original intention for mankind and show how that purpose finds its perfect expression in Jesus. He is “the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15), making Him our reference point for understanding who God is and who we were created to become. 

This series goes beyond knowing your identity in Christ as a biblical doctrine. Truth must become established in the heart. When you begin to see yourself according to your new identity in Jesus, it changes how you approach faith, prayer, authority, righteousness, relationships, and life itself. 

God’s goal has never been for you to struggle to become someone you are not. Transformation is learning to put off the old identity and put on the new man: the person God has already created you to be. 

As you work through this series, you’ll begin to:

• Recover your true identity in Christ
• Discover God’s original purpose for mankind in Genesis 1:26–28
• Understand why becoming like Jesus is at the heart of your highest calling
• See righteousness as a pathway of life rather than religious performance
• Look to Jesus as the perfect revelation of God’s character and nature
• Understand what it means to represent God and carry His name
• Transform how you live, love, pray, believe, and relate to others

Second Corinthians 3:18 tells us that as we behold the Lord, we “are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.” When Jesus becomes our clearest picture of God, He also becomes our clearest picture of the life we were created to live. 

You don’t have to spend your life wondering about your purpose or trying to manufacture a better version of yourself. You were created in His image. You were created to reveal His likeness. In Jesus, you can discover who you were created to be.