Even as sin and death appear triumphant in the present, the kingdom of God is already breaking upon the world.
Read MoreEven when there is profound resistance to the Gospel, the Holy Spirit is still at work.
Read MoreDespite all opposition and all attempts at holding it back, the kingdom of God will continue to break in upon the world, and lives will continue to be transformed as a result.
Read MoreTo trust in God is to pray, to pray is to hope, and to hope is to live as though our hope has already been fulfilled…because it has.
Read MoreThe places in our lives where we experience brokenness are the very places in which God is actively at work.
Read MoreWhat to the religious authorities appeared demonic, and what to Jesus’ own family was cause to fear for his sanity, was nothing less than God’s crazy love.
Read MoreSuffering and death are not signs of God’s absence but rather means through which God speaks, for God is no stranger to suffering or to death.
Read MoreTo live according to the flesh is to labor under the expectation that we can climb our way up to God by doing things that God approves of.
Read MoreEvangelism is simply sharing how God has moved in your life. We all have a story to share.
Read MoreThe Gospel of Jesus Christ is wonderfully weird, especially when set against the ways of the world.
Read MoreTo abide in the love of Jesus is simply to trust that we are who Jesus says that we are—his friends.
Read MoreIt’s only the forgiveness of sins that we’ve received through Jesus Christ that has dragged us into God’s fold and made us insiders.
Read MoreThe resurrection of Jesus from the dead means that in the eyes of God none of us are defined by our worst selves.
Read MoreOnly One who was raised from the dead in the body could free our bodies from bondage to sin and death.
Read MoreTherefore, to walk in the light, as John encourages, is to be honest about who we are…sinners forever in need of God’s grace.
Read MoreFar from a metaphor, the resurrection of Jesus has weight and substance, mass and volume, flesh and bone and blood.
Read MoreThe son of David doesn’t come to the holy city with an army but rather with arms that will be stretched out upon a Roman cross.
Read MoreIn the new covenant, it is God who takes all the initiative and assumes all the responsibility.
Read MoreWhether or not a temple made of stone stands in Jerusalem, God is with the people
Read MoreTo be bound in covenant with the life-giving, liberating God is to be set free to live as God’s covenant people.
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