The gospel of Jesus Christ isn’t just good news for those who are being saved. The very nature of the gospel is that it separates humanity into those who believe […]
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Another vision for the exiles of Israel; there, on the horizon are the mountains of the kingdoms of men. But, highest of them all in the last days to come […]
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What is God like? This can be a complicated question, receiving different answers depending on what a person is going through. Israel, in the midst of exile, is given a […]
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Holiness, entire sanctification, and Christian perfection (meaning the same) is not attainable on our own. We are made for community and we are saved in community. This includes...
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A key distinctive of Methodist and Free Methodists is a belief that God’s grace comes first—it is never absent. God has been and continues to extend his grace to all […]
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A key part of our Free Methodist history was a recovery of the gospel of Jesus being especially for the poor. Throughout church history there has always been a temptation [&hell...
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A key distinctive of Methodist and Free Methodists is a belief that God’s grace comes first—it is never absent. God has been and continues to extend his grace to all […]
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Our inheritance is the renewed creation—the new heaven and earth, but this isn’t just a future hope. The new creation has already begun, the end is here. So, we are […]
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Clearly there is scriptural language that describes the destruction of the earth. How are we to reconcile this with what we have been learning? Primarily by applying what we hav...
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Salvation is not an other worldly hope in the Old Testament. At the centre of the story is God, his people, and the creation (environment) that they live. This reflects […]
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The way that much popular Christian theology speaks about heaven is highly problematic. Most Christians have a view that not only do we go to heaven when we die but […]
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Human beings stand out from the rest of God’s good creation by being made in God’s image. That humanity is made in the image of God and addressed by God […]
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We are called to be an unshakable people. Again, the author compares the former things with the new things in Christ. At Sinai Israel was afraid because God shook the […]
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We cannot expect to be embraced by everyone when Jesus was killed for who he was and the kingdom that he brought. This means we too will experience dislike. Understanding [&hell...
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Too often our culture wants to define faith as a blind belief in the impossible. That is not what faith is. Instead, faith is a confidence in the hope that […]
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It’s such a benign word, ‘drift.’ We can picture a boat floating away from the dock because it wasn’t tied up properly. It just drifts away. This is the same […]
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The resurrection of Jesus was not a mere reanimation of the old person. No, that person was dead and buried. Jesus was the first to be raised to the new […]
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If we demand answers from God and we persist that we cannot go on living until he answers us, he will indeed speak. His answers may not align to our […]
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The human story is stuck in a perpetual cycle: we reject God and God rejects us. We want the whole of creation to ourselves free from the rule of God. […]
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To hold positions of authority and wield power over others is always a very attractive thing to us as human beings. However, to try to function this way as God’s […]
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