Walking Wisely Through the Wilderness of Temptation
Thank you for taking the time to join me today as we reflect on a theme that traces its thread from Eden to Calvary to our own lives: temptation. Specifically, we consider the threefold avenue of temptation as described in 1 John 2:16 – “the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes […]
The Blessings of the Covenant
Jesus throughout the Scriptures: Synoptic Gospels 1: Messenger of the Covenant (4) Pray Psalm 48.12-14.Walk about Zion,And go all around her.Count her towers;Mark well her bulwarks;Consider her palaces;That you may tell it to the generation following.For this is God,Our God forever and ever;He will be our guideEven to death.Sing Psalm 48.12-14.(Cwm Rhondda: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah) Walk about […]
Dream Big Dreams
Our readings in this series are from the book, Revived! Here is a brief excerpt from page : “In Jesus’ first public sermon, He identified Himself as the One Who had come to set the captives free. We will not know full and flourishing freedom in Jesus until we acknowledge our need to be set free from whatever […]
Eastertide: Way Maker
I am the resurrection and the life;
Thro’ the vale of death, beside thee,
I, the Lord of Hosts, will guide thee
Where no evil shall betide thee, forevermore;
Where no evil shall betide thee, forevermore.
Hate
Luke 14:25–35 (ESV) Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross […]