We need to understand God’s wrath and how He executes judgment. God’s wrath revealed is best understood as His mercy removed, where God gives people completely over to their own unrighteousness and wickedness. A right understanding of God’s wrath and judgment magnifies the great importance of God’s mercy to us. We must be sure...
23-0212: Jesus is the Lamb of God who is worthy of all worship because He was slain and yet He lives. Revelation 5 expands John’s Throne Room vision by drawing his attention back to the Throne where the One seated is holding a scroll. When the angels ask if anyone is worthy, no one...
The purest picture of God is best found at the closest proximity to His habitation....
23-0115: Jesus makes you new to produce a new kind of living that forms more of Him in you. Repentance is built on three foundational convictions of the new that Jesus creates in the Christian. And these convictions motivate a new pattern of thinking and living through faith. When we speak of the “process...
23-0108: Jesus makes you a new creation to live by faith in His Kingdom under His Lordship for His glory now. At the start of a new year so much attention is given to working on “you”, but most of this pertains only to the physical realm. In 1 Timothy 4:8 Pauls states that...
What’s your plan to make an eternal investment in 2023? I want to encourage and help you to walk with Jesus daily, strengthen your understanding of the Bible, and listen to the Lord Jesus Christ, our Great Shepherd, every day in this new year. This is a compilation of some of the greatest resources...
The reality of lukewarm was the loss of communion with Jesus. All the affluence of life caused them to believe they had no need and deceived them to think they could live far from the source. A lukewarm life is produced by two main qualities; a false security due to personal resource, that fosters...
Jesus celebrates as most significant the church of seeming insignificance in the world. And it is this church to which He opened a door that cannot be shut. Jesus entrusts the commission of His Kingdom to the church of insignificance in the world. And he is not embarrassed or ashamed, but calls them to...
Reputation makes it easy to construct a counterfeit identity where people hide their true self, and this is most easily done in relationship with God....
What you tolerate will determine where you set your hope, and influence the hopes of others around you. False teachings seduce the church to stain our good works and spoil our witness in the world. The gospel leads Christ-followers forth by Jesus’ authority to make disciples of all nations now, teaching the Truth of...