Chris shares a professor style message, facilitating discussion on the “buts” in scripture, referring to verses that affirm God’s position on His love and promises to His people.
A couple of weeks ago, my husband read Romans 8:31-34 at the beginning of our church service. Two phrases in particular gripped my heart: “If God is for us, who can be…
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…
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…
Adam and Eve Account of God’s relentless love in the book of Hosea. 1. Hosea 1:2 God instructs Hosea to marry a prostitute 2. Hosea 1:3-9 Hosea Marries Gomer and…
The Holy Spirit’s arrival was announced by a citywide Sight & Sound Extravaganza. That’s how people were drawn to witness, firsthand, the promised gift of the Father. Sure enough, the…
From Creation all the way to the end of time, the story of God’s love faithfully and seamlessly weaves through every generation, every people, every tongue. At the end of…
Salvation’s provisions have been completed. Jesus’ glory has been revealed. Instructions for life and ministry have been lined out. Holy Spirit teaching and encouragement and correction are ongoing. Promises of…
For the law-keeping Jew, God was the fearsome, mountain-shaking Yahweh of history. To the wayward Jew, He was the all-patient One. To the forsaken Jew, God was the friend that…
For Jesus’ disciples, the Pentecost event initiated in them, gave birth through them, Jesus’ Church. For us, Pentecost shapes, gives current expression to, the Church into which we were born.…