Our Mission

Stirring the Spirit one cup at a time through laughter, love and stories. Encouragement Café is a pick-me-up for the soul and fuel for a weary heart. It’s a community inspiring you with the encouraging hope of Jesus Christ!

One by One, by One, by One
locking arms with you
trusting and believing God at His word

If you’ve found your way to this page, it is not by accident. God has been calling you. He wants you to “get it” for yourself. Sit still for a minute. Find a quiet place where there are no distractions and let God’s Word speak to your heart.

Have you ever seen anything intricate like the inside of a ticking watch? It’s pretty amazing, isn’t it? There is precision involved in the details of that watch. If you find the watchmaker and ask, “Did this just happen? Did all those pieces just fall into place inside this case?” He of course would say, “No, I designed it. I knew exactly where to place each part and I started the wheels in motion.”

“In the beginning, God…” You’ve heard that before, yet maybe it was hard for you to truly believe it. Consider with me for a minute, does it really make sense that everything just fell into place? Or does it make more sense that a Master Designer created it? The Bible is God’s Word. It’s the way He continues to speak to us today. Consider that it was written over a 1,500 year span by over 40 authors and it has survived centuries of rulers trying to stamp it out. Do you know any other piece of literature that can say the same? It is the inspired Word of God written by men who were obedient.

God created us to reflect His image and to have a relationship with Him. Then sin entered the world and we thought we would try our own way. How’s that working out for you? Yeah, it didn’t work for me either.

Sin is when we deliberately do something we know is wrong. It separates us from God because He is holy and He cannot be associated with sin. So He created a way to restore that relationship. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to be a sacrifice for our sins. All of our sins. Your life has purpose! God wants to give you an abundant life, He does!

God IS love!

You will hear that there are many ways to heaven in today’s tolerant culture. Satan is very clever at attempting to make parallels with God. He wants to make other things appear almost right, so you can still continue to live any way you like and not feel bad.
Don’t fall for it. He is a liar.

You cannot earn your way into heaven. You cannot DO enough in your own efforts.

He sent His Son to walk on this earth, fully God, yet fully human, so that He would understand our struggles and be able to empathize with us. He paid the price for your sins and mine. He gave up His life to pay for every sneaky, rotten, horrible thing we could do.
Your sin is not so bad that God’s grace cannot cover it with His Son’s blood.

Blood? What’s that all about and why is it necessary? The very first sin was disobedience by Adam & Eve when God told them not to eat from one tree. They had hundreds of other trees to choose from, but He had to give them a choice, otherwise He would have just created robots. Unfortunately, they chose to disobey Him. So there they were naked in the garden but they didn’t realize it. After they disobeyed God, they realized they were naked
and they knew the guilt of disobeying God.

They tried to hide from God and maybe you have been hiding too.
Maybe you have been running around trying to fix things. It’s not working is it?

It didn’t work for Adam & Eve either, so God saved them. He covered them with the skin of an animal, a fur coat! Think about it, to get the fur coat, something had to die. Blood was shed because of their disobedience. From that point on there was blood shed for sins,
but the law required blood to be shed every time they sinned – over and over.

God knew that we needed a final, once and for all sacrifice that would be enough. One Perfect Sacrifice that was so BIG, so AMAZING, so INCOMPARABLE, that it would cover every sin for every person, for all eternity. His Son stepped out of heaven and onto this earth to become that sacrifice. Wow!

Confess your sins

Grace. That’s it. His free gift. Now it’s up to you, will you accept it?

If you want to know this “relationship” with Him, Pray this Prayer:

We would love to hear from you if you have prayed the above prayer or if you have committed to living a Christian life. Please let us know how we can support you.
Talk to God every day about what you think and how you feel. He will listen.

The coolest part of all is that abundant life thing! When we receive Christ, believing, confessing, accepting, God does something amazing! He seals you by placing His Holy Spirit inside your heart! You are stamped with God’s seal of approval.

Remember, knowing doesn’t always mean “feeling” ok?
You can KNOW that God has done what He promises because He always fulfills His promises. He said, once you are His, He will NEVER leave you or forsake you. Period!