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,…
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.…
The reaping of the Kingdom harvest will not be achieved without pushback from the kingdom of darkness. It will be completed but will rile up opposing forces willing to fight…
In the fullness of time: 1. God sent His Son (Gal. 4:4), 2. Jesus announced, ‘It is time for the Kingdom of God to be experienced in its fullness’ (Mk.1:15),…
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…
Through the pen of Isaiah, we feel the intensity of the loving heartbeat of God the Father. While He is a God of love, indeed is Love, His purity cannot…
Wanting Jesus 1. New Year’s Resolution – Gratitude 2. Longing 3. Daughter/Son of a King 4. Deep longing for Jesus, for the Garden 5. Psalm 42:1-4 6. Emotional struggle 7.…
Former Pharisee, Paul, had undergone a total revamping of his faith: the history of his people, the Law of Moses, the current Sabbath Laws, the Rabbinic interpretation of the prophecies…
For the Israelites, the journey from being slaves in Egypt to possessors of their own land in Canaan was long and fraught with detours and temptations. So, too, our journey…
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…