Jesus tore down every barrier separating us: blood-stained our sin, killed off death, bequeathed grace, re-established relationship possibility with himself; and now he invites us to live his life! All this in…
Because of His bounding joy, God went to meticulous lengths forming us in His image. Then, Adam’s tragic failure in the Garden marred that image. Until that moment when Adam’s…
For the Apostles, grasping the full scope of what Jesus’ death accomplished and made available was a distilling process, a little by little, growing awareness, with expanding comprehensions, and elating…
‘There is a place that I know where I need more often to go. A place of amazing comfort and rest.’ from Arms of my Father, by Dave Chumchal We sing…
Twenty-five years after his blinding encounter with the very Jesus he was persecuting, Paul became a prisoner in Rome, under guard, but allowed to be in his own rented house,…
At his birth, Jesus was the in-breaking of the Kingdom and its King. How he lived was a Kingdom-citizen prototype. His charisma was unsophisticated, pure. His joyful enthusiasm was compelling.…
Our God is a God of purpose, of precision, of planning, of perfection, of purity. His sphere of infinite influence shatters all human perceptions. His ways are higher than our…
Jesus went back to the Father / The Holy Spirit arrived / The church burst into being / Persecution erupted. For the next three decades, life for disciples of Jesus…
The Resurrection Scheme of Things As the Holy Spirit continued wooing souls, sweeping them into the newborn Church of Jesus, the persecution, from both Jewish leaders and Roman authorities, continued…
The power source which the Holy Spirit proved to be at Pentecost was far from being a one-and-done. The disciples realized, with some dismay no doubt, that their day-to-day operations…