The gift, or gifts of healing are given to some to demonstrate God’s love for his people. It can also act as a sign, confirming the witness of the church. When God heals through...
read moreAll those who have put their trust in Christ Jesus have received the faith from God to do so. However, Scripture speaks of a special gift of faith that is given only to some. Th...
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...
read moreWorship of God is never separated from our relationships with people. Yet, within our sinfulness, human beings will often attempt to claim a love for God even as we exploit His ...
read moreAgain, holistic worship involves our treatment of both God and his people. This is especially true within the body of Christ. Our confession of Christ cannot be simply lip servi...
read moreGod’s original creative purpose for the world is for it to be His temple. As the gospel of Jesus moves out to the nations right to the ends of the earth, no longer is worship li...
read moreThis is an essential connection between offering a sacrifice and the worship of God. Sacrifice is pictured in the story of Cain and Abel in Genesis and culminates in the book of...
read moreToo often “worship” is viewed as a duty that must be carried out by us. At the same time, it is not very clear just what worship is or why we should do it. By examining Israel’s...
read moreIt is always tempting to try to dictate the terms of our own discipleship. Of course, if we actually did this, what we would have wouldn’t be discipleship. No, true discipleship...
read moreToo often we make a separation between physical and spiritual hunger and fulfillment. Jesus doesn’t indulge our “either/or” dichotomy. Rather, he desires to fill all people with...
read moreWhat does a faith (trusting, committed, belief that leads to action) that saves look like? Do we turn to a Mother Theresa or a Martin Luther King Jr.? Jesus and Luke turn to a p...
read moreWho are the people that are automatically rejected in our thinking? In Jesus’s day these were the tax-collectors. Betrayers of their own people and collaborating with the foreig...
read moreThe medium is the the message. This well known axiom reminds us of the importance of how we communicate, not just what. So, it is no accident that Jesus, who has a message of go...
read moreGod in his grace comes to the poor and the needy with salvation. But, are we prepared to view ourselves in these terms? Are we prepared to embrace The Suffering Servant of the L...
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