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…
It was the most beautiful activation. In the fullness of God’s timing, His Kingdom inaugurated eschatology by overlaying perfection onto the world’s corrupted system. It was the ‘day’ of God’s…
God is holy, pure, exacting, perfect love. He cannot tolerate the presence of anything less. (He declared no one could see His face and live. Ex. 33:20). The calamitous introduction…
Around 25 years after Paul’s Damascus roadside meetup with Jesus, he continued in his passionate pursuit of the Lover of his soul. His life was wholly dedicated to announcing the…
Adam sealed our fate, getting us ousted from Eden’s God-light, and getting us dumped off as exiles in the darkness and pain and toil of a cold, unwelcoming world. Our…
-our confidence- Some of Jesus’ last words to the disciples were: ‘you will receive power.’ And so, on the day of Pentecost, Peter, ready-fire-aim Peter, mouth-engaged-before-brain Peter, stood before several…
-our Exemplar- Jesus’ cousin, John, called the Baptizer, was an eleventh-hour miracle for the elderly priest Zechariah and his wife, Elizabeth. His unusual name, the prophetic words spoken about him,…