From the youngest in a family of eight boys, in a small village, to the greatest king ever to sit on the throne of Israel, David’s life was anything but…
One reason the crowds flocking to Jesus grew in size and frequency and intensity, was that his teachings held such surprising and encouraging changes. It was good news and so…
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,…
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…
Hopeful Waiting As we enter this season, we look around at our world and at ourselves and acknowledge that there is deep darkness, that much is not as it should…
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…