The continual surprises of the Kingdom of God were (and are) mostly generated from a worldly mindset that anticipates God acting congruently with the way the world works. In that…
The overall look and feel of God’s Kingdom became clearer through Jesus’ teachings. However, there were times when circumstances arose where, acting completely within society’s norms, the disciples unknowingly ran…
Built into our old nature is a powerful resistance to change, unless, of course, it’s a change we are choosing for ourselves. Routine is a comfortable, reassuring predictability for many,…
There’s a life-changing miracle every believer in Jesus has experienced – being chosen by him! Imagine! The One Who created everything, rules over everything, is Ageless and eternal, majestic beyond…
The most dizzying series of miracles and displays of Covenant love had just propelled the Israelites into an all-new season, an all-new territory. For the past four centuries, nothing close…
Four centuries is a very long time to be a nation of people within another nation. The Israelites had, over the many years in since Joseph’s death, become slaves in…
Of the four Gospel writers, Mark and John include no details of Jesus’ birth or early years. For that, we turn to Matthew and Luke. Each of those first-days’ events…
Self-giving Love Every grandiose scenario imagined for the arrival of Messiah was eclipsed by the Father. The poverty and obscurity, the no-name couple, Galileans of all disqualifying things, the lack…
Resilient Joy ‘Just a cradle in the shadow of a cross,’ sings one Gospel song. ‘A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief,’ prophesies Isaiah. A king born to die.…
Courageous Peacemaking Establishing peace, for Jesus, the Prince of Peace, would always involve struggle and opposition and rejection. Through all this, he was undeterred because he knew that peace was…