Rice Community Church

A favorite coffee mug verse, but when we read the surrounding verses, we see a nation in exile, going through some stuff, the Gospel isn't about an easy life, but a life of peace found in our true hope Jesus. Just like gold must be refined to be pure and more precious our lives have to be refined and defined by obedience and repentance as those two characteristics grow so will our peace and our joy because we are walking into the purpose that God ultimately has for us Jeremiah 29:11 'For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. '