Jesus’ brief, but highly impactful, life birthed a new-life movement empowered by the Holy Spirit. The learning curve of this Kingdom-compliant life was steep. It involved a radical departure from…
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…
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…
Patrick Smith shares his testimony about his walk with Jesus, and gives words of encouragement. Who has God made you to be? There are differences in our testimonies We have…
Question for discussion: The people that God lovingly created, how does He redirect the motives, the aspirations, the lifestyle of His children to extend His Kingdom? Put yourself in God’s…
Beyond a relationship with Jesus as Lord, beyond adoption into the Beloved, beyond eternal life, beyond forgiveness of sins – all this already too much to comprehend, too good to…
Jesus was the instructor, and the disciples were his open-air, traveling classroom of twelve. The constant crowds clamored for spectacle while each display was intended to show his students further…
Relational discord, power struggles, secret plotting, angry shouting, division along ‘party’ lines, all these things are totally absent in the Kingdom of God and the life of the Trinity. There,…
Life in the Kingdom of God is lived in stark contrast with life in the ‘kingdom’ of unredeemed people. The differences were constantly highlighted by Jesus’ way of life, his…
Unlike any Rabbi they’d ever heard of, Jesus seemed so much like one of the guys. Yes, he wielded astonishing power and authority, did miracles, and scared them witless sometimes,…
Adam’s sin fractured his glory, tearing apart his unbroken, intimate, Garden of Eden relationship with God. It was an instantaneous, tragic reversal. God was, for the first time, seen by Adam…
Before technology became ‘the’ way to communicate, face to face exchange and personal, handwritten messages managed to hold an ever-expanding society together for millennia. The spoken word was invaluable. The…