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…
From a group of twelve men, to a devoted group of one hundred twenty followers, to the overnight, viral sensation of thousands breaking free of the confines of traditional Judaism…
The Incarnation, Jesus becoming man, was the initial breaking in of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Jesus’ death and Resurrection completely satisfied the righteous requirements of pure and holy…
