The Bible portrays time as a series of connected loops, each one taking us back to the past, even as it moves us into the future.
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The Bible portrays time as a series of connected loops, each one taking us back to the past, even as it moves us into the future.
In a time of terror, when darkness terrorized the nations, there was a monster—a literal, blood-sucking monster. The world needed a hero.
When I say I am a big brother, I’m not speaking only in relation to my little sister. Rather, I am a big brother in a Luke 15 kind of way.
If all Scripture is inspired and is profitable for our life as Christians, then perhaps we should not try and decide which section of Scripture is most important.
My prayer for all of us in ministry, is that we, just like John the Baptist, are only motivated by the desire to point to Jesus. That’s our job.
Ministry requires us to build some walls in order to survive. But one of the walls we must build is that of joy.
Sharing communion each week calls us back to the path we chose when we committed our lives to Jesus.
Seldom read, the book of Jude explores themes of grace and holiness, which are difficult for us to hold in the same hand.
After Jesus speaks to the people about loving their enemies and doing good to those who hate them, the first person we encounter is a centurion.
Happy believers sing. Those in trouble pray. And those who are sick call the elders to anoint them with oil and pray for them.
Many of Jesus’s most obvious teachings are ignored. His teaching on conflict in the church is straightforward, profound, bold, and … never really followed.
In these two words exists a clear example from Jesus of what it looks like to truly and intentionally experience life with another person.
Nehemiah constantly faced outside pressure from opponents and inside issues from coworkers. He persisted, but he probably had to build some walls of his own.
Smart people sometimes help us see and understand things in better ways. They are often right. Sometimes they are wrong.
If a church doesn’t learn how to fight, war is the inevitable and unenviable outcome.
Try these two communication experiments and see how Jesus is revealed through you.
Healthy, godly men need dreams. They need to believe that life has meaning and that their actions count for something.
How are mere fishermen supposed to see and to understand the infinite greatness of the kingdom of God that Jesus is revealing in his life and ministry?
Jesus prays for us to achieve unity in our diversity so that the world will know the unconditional love of God and believe.
I wonder what our churches would look like if we modeled ourselves after these early believers.
