God cannot be stopped in his good purposes for his whole creation. The mystery of the gospel is that God uses our own rejection and death as the means of our redemption and salv...
read moreWhat is hope? A clear vision of a better future. Why is hope important? Without it we would despair and not move forward. God, out of his love for us, gives to us a vision of ou...
read moreWe’re all familiar with love songs today. And, we are familiar with songs of love lost or broken. But those too are love songs. Those are songs of love gone wrong; love unfulfil...
read moreThe God of Israel is the God who always says, “Go! I send you!” Even as exiles, the children of Israel knew themselves to be messengers, a people called to be conduits for justi...
read moreIs the God of Israel the God of the Jews only? Are the nations excluded from God’s covenant? Is Jesus’s death and resurrection only for some or for all? The creator God’s desire...
read moreDo you know what it is that you want? Are you seeking in all the wrong places for all the wrong things? Our own efforts might meet the basest of our needs but only the Lord can ...
read moreWhat is the source of new creation? The same one who created the heavens and the earth promises to remake them. To bring about the new heavens and the new earth. A whole new, he...
read moreHow do we know that God will rescue us today? Because he rescued us yesterday. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He has love and compassion for his whole creation a...
read moreFrom where does our joy come? We try to be happy, but so often even our happiness is tinged by sadness. Life can seem harsh and, at times, empty. What can really change our circ...
read moreHow can peace be established? Sometimes it takes only the smallest slight to reveal the hostility that lies underneath our polite interactions. So much divides us: thoughts, bel...
read moreWhat is the hope for the world? Most, if not all, would agree that we live in a world of turmoil. Some might go so far as to describe their experience of the world as evil—a pro...
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