God loves the unexpected, the element of surprise. He provided Abram with a ram for the sacrifice. He opened the Red Sea for a safe and dry escape from Egypt.…
Jesus’ public ministry constantly raised eyebrows. For common folk, including his disciples, it was their surprise and delight at what they were seeing and hearing. For the religious elite, it…
What Jesus chose to do on the day he rose from the dead tells us a lot about the Kingdom-sized work he was leaving in the hands of his disciples.…
Jesus, post-Resurrection, chose to delay his return to the Father to reassure his disciples of his unchanged, and unchangeable, love for them as he had promised before the upheaval of…
Jesus’ birth was the initial breaking through of the Presence of God’s Kingdom into the world of men. Curiously, only unnamed shepherds were given the announcement. Then, for thirty years,…
The Prophet Isaiah (9:2) spoke a hope-filled word about a people walking in darkness, seeing a great light (the brightness of God’s glory). That brightness has been veiled from mankind,…
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…