Patience and Expectations
The Gap Nobody Talks About There’s a particular kind of frustration that doesn’t announce itself as impatience. It just feels like a bad day… the morning that didn’t go as planned, the project that stalled, the person who didn’t come through, the conversation that went sideways. We rarely step back and ask what actually went […]
Laying Hold on the Glory
As Christians, we want to glorify God in everything we do, because that’s how others are drawn into His glory and begin to know Him better. Today’s excerpt from The Kingdom Turn is found on pages 93 and 94: “In order to bring others into the knowledge of the glory of God in every area of our lives, we […]
Love One Another
State of the Church: The Celtic Revival (19) For great harm has been done and is done to the church’s peace by difference of character and diversity of practice; but yet if, as I have said, we first hasten by the exercise of true humility to heal the poison of pride and envy and vain […]
Called to Repentance
Matthew 9: Enlarging the Harvest (2) Pray Psalm 51.14, 15.Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,The God of my salvation,And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.O Lord, open my lips,And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.Sing Psalm 51.14, 15, 18.Aughton: He Leadeth MeDeliver us, from guilt, O LORD, You Who have saved […]
LENT: Happy in the Lord
Do we fancy ourselves disciples of Jesus, though there is little about our lives to support that notion? Are we Christians according to the guidelines of our culture or the demands of our King?
A Supernatural Life
Hosea 1:1–3 (ESV) The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take […]