Full Service Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount wanted to create a picture for his disciples of what it looks like to be a citizen of His Kingdom. Looking at what Jesus portrayed for them on that Galilean mountainside many years ago serves as a good...
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first.” John 15:18 The Be attitudes → Introduction to the King’s sermon—set forth the constitution of the kingdom--not entrance requirements (audience is already in), not ethics to emulate...
Did Jesus really rise from the dead? If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead—the cross of Good Friday was nothing more than an execution by a nation of misguided people and Christianity an equally benign and pathetic belief system vying for attention on...
One Kingdom—One King—One Commission—One MissionThe Kingdom of Light: The Great Commission-Go and Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have...
Where are we? What do we see when we see the crowds?We are living between the extremes of full-blown self, as the measure of morality, and resurgent fundamentalism that puts fences around the self.The values (“righteousness”) of the present society...
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of the things has passed away.”The Eager Expectation of Creation (Rom. 8:18-25)The Gospel to Creation—the glory to be revealed in us...
Where are they now?“Today you will be with me in Paradise.” (Promise of Jesus to the repentant thief; Lk. 23:43)7 Stages of Existence:- Foreknown (Jer. 1:5; Rom. 8:29)- Conception (Ps. 139:13-16)- Physical earthly life (Ps. 139:16)- Body...
One of the dangerous beliefs circulating in the church at the time of John the Apostle was the notion that you could enjoy fellowship with God and also live an unrighteous life. That you could have God and your sin too! To which John writes...If we...
Are we not in exile? Exiles of post modern/post truth secularismWe are “Resident Aliens”, our nation is the church, our charter is the Scriptures, our home is the local body, we are “in transit” together.Can the God of the Universe engage in His...
Context: We find our promise today, in a letter Paul wrote out of concern for the souls of the believers in Corinth (11:3) and the reluctant need to defend his apostleship in light of a smear campaign being carried out by false apostles to discredit...
Are you presently experiencing peace?Peace is one of the great benefits promised and gifted to us as an intended consequence of the incarnation- “... peace to men on whom his favour rests” (Lk. 2:14) as Christ’s atoning work- “Peace I leave with you...
Full Service The saving love of God necessitates the sanctifying love of God—the love that saves us, also shapes us, which is sometimes emotionally confusing.God is good.His purposes are good.The situation we are required tobear within this reality...
Is it normal for a Christian to face so many hardships and are these things hindering my spiritual advance?Can good things really come from bad things?Is it true that if I lose something, it’s always because God has something better for me in this...
Full Service Has contentment completely leaked out of the hydrogen-filled balloon of your life this past couple of years or so and you find yourself or have found yourself seriously emotionally sagging and saying, “I can’t do this”?“I (you) can do...
Full Service How likely are you to experience answered prayer? Have you been disappointed a lot?Of the majority disciplines that engage Christians, perhaps there is no other as grossly misrepresented, over-exaggerated in scope, or under-valued, as...
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jn. 3:16What is the problem?—unbelieving, perishing/unable to see the Kingdom of God Works of religion, charity...