Citizens of Heaven
Our True Allegiance The season of Lent is a time for reflection, repentance, and renewal – a time to examine whether we’re living according to God’s calling in our lives. In Philippians 3:17-4:1, Paul reminds us that our ultimate citizenship is not in this world but in heaven. This truth should shape how we live, […]
Follow the Pattern
Pray for Your Church: The Foundations (3) According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it. Exodus 25.9 When God buildsIt is impossible to read about the work of constructing the tabernacle and its furnishings and not know […]
Pastoral Purpose
“To the church of the Thessalonians…” (1 Thess. 1:1) When you go through your daily snail mail and you come across a letter addressed to “occupant” or “current resident” how do you handle that correspondence? Likely, you don’t even open it. You deposit it directly in the circular file. Even those letters that do bear […]
Revealer of Secrets
Jesus throughout the Scriptures: Pre-exilic Prophets 1 (5)Pray Psalm 147.1.Praise the LORD!For it is good to sing praises to our God;For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.Sing Psalm 147.1.(St. Anne: Our God, Our Help in Ages Past)Praise God, for it is good to sing loud praises to the LORD!With joy our songs of praise we bring to God and to His […]
Captive to the Status Quo
Our readings in this series are from the book, The Church Captive. Here is a brief excerpt from page 43: “As the First Great Awakening (1730s and 40s) gathered momentum, many established New England pastors offered resistance, and refused to open their minds or churches to the reviving winds of the Holy Spirit. Jonathan Edwards took it […]
Hungry
Luke 9:10–17 (ESV) On their return the apostles told him all that they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida. When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of […]