LENT: Give No Opportunity to the Devil
The deepest source of misery in the world is not ignorance, injustice, or the failure to be true to ourselves. It is sin: cosmic treason against our Creator and his rule.
Christ Makes All Things Well
What once was lost, you have reclaimed. What had been harmed, you will remake. What was unwell, you now restore. You make all things well!
The LORD Who Heals You
“For I am the LORD who heals you” (Exodus 15:26, NKJV) What does it mean for God to be a healer? The answer to that question is not as straightforward as we might think. He is described as the one who takes sickness away and the one who restores health. He heals physically from bodily […]
Rebuking Unrepentant Cities
Matthew 11: Taking the Kingdom by Force (5) Pray Psalm 149.5-9.Let the saints be joyful in glory;Let them sing aloud on their beds.Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,And a two-edged sword in their hand,To execute vengeance on the nations,And punishments on the peoples;To bind their kings with chains,And their nobles with fetters of iron;To […]
A Struggling Church
Hope for the Church (1) Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love. 1 Corinthians 16.13, 14 Two failuresThe Church in Corinth in the days of the apostle Paul was a struggling church, not unlike many of our churches today. In his first letter to the believers there Paul […]
The Pleasure of His Company
We don’t have to look very far in the Scriptures to see that God’s people considered His Presence and company to be the greatest pleasure they could know. Today’s excerpt from The Kingdom Turn is from pages 136 and 137: “Let’s consider three verses [from Psalm 149]: “Praise the LORD!Sing to the LORD a new song,And His praise in […]
Revolters
Hosea 5:1-5 (ESV) Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel!Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you;for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them. I know Ephraim, […]