At Jesus’ death, the temple veil was torn in two from top to bottom, declaring the inauguration of a glorious new era of open access to God, the simultaneous demise…
For its first nine months, a baby is nurtured by an intimate connection, a reassuring swaddling, in its mother. The initial moments following birth are a disconnect from that vital…
God chose to reveal Plan ’A’ to Saul/Paul, who knew ‘everything’ there was to know about God, His ways, His laws, His expectations. No intervention could have been more shocking…
Believers in Jesus live with the staggering reality of being in the world and at the same time, not being of it. The now and the not yet. The time…
The Law of Moses was stringent, with rules far beyond the abilities of the Jews to satisfy. It functioned as an endless system of sacrifices that God required for the…
Jesus told his disciples: ‘Don’t worry or surrender to your fear.’ John. 14:1 TPT. Later, Paul would give instructions like: work out your salvation, make every effort to put on,…
Jesus’ brief, but highly impactful, life birthed a new-life movement empowered by the Holy Spirit. The learning curve of this Kingdom-compliant life was steep. It involved a radical departure from…
Far from being a religious system of beliefs and rituals connecting us to God, Christianity is comprised of followers of Jesus, his ‘little children,’ all invited to share the resurrection…
God is love. His story is a story of eternal, undiminishable, unconditional love. The vaguest of distant memories of that perfect love and likeness in which we were created, is…
Before Adam’s fall, our Eternal, no-time-constraints Creator, had a comprehensive Plan of Salvation in place to restore order to the chaos of fallen creation, to abolish the barrier of sin,…
There are untold numbers of treasures, filled with mystery, hidden away in the heart of God. For centuries thought to be the exclusive domain of the Jewish people, God revealed…
The young Church was growing and expanding into new territory at a rapid pace, presenting the challenge of how to integrate the influx of new believers from a wide variety…