Posts with the tag “old-testament”

The world needs the church to hold on to the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. If the world has proven anything in these troubled times, it’s that there is no certainty of hope outside of God’s promi...  Read More

Good stories are based on good plans and solid plots. The story of Redemption has a perfect plan that has been unfolding since the beginning of time. God has never been surprised by any of the plot de...  Read More

We fight for the things that mean something to us. We rebuild and reclaim those things that have been destroyed when they have meaning for us. Our efforts follow our hearts....  Read More

The American church is fractured in its fealty to Jesus. We have choices to make. Will we follow Jesus even if that leads us into a place of powerlessness on this earth, or will we use worldly means, ...  Read More

Those who have been justified by faith know what it is like to be truly free before God. This is the greatest freedom of all. This great freedom must trickle down into our fight for justice in this wo...  Read More

The only chance that peace has is for the enemy of peace to be utterly destroyed. There can be no remnant of evil if we are to ever experience the kind of peace that God has in store for a New Heaven ...  Read More

If we are seeking peace on this earth because of the foundational peace we have in Christ, we will look to stop oppression and seek justice in our culture. We will fight to have laws changed and to el...  Read More

Jesus is a compassionate missionary and he calls his people to follow him on the path of compassion. Compassion means that we love those who hate us....  Read More

Life is not fair. Many evil people will never suffer punishment on this earth. They will die with a smile on their face. Conversely, many righteous people will be martyred or suffer unjustly. Sometime...  Read More

God hears the cry of the disenfranchised and he has placed His church in a position to seek social justice and righteousness in a world gone mad....  Read More

God is not promising to heal you of the plague if you would repent, for I can assure you, that is not true. What God has promised in the day of the Lord, what God is giving us through the indwelling o...  Read More

God desperately loves His people, even the broken ones. Oh yes, we are all the broken ones. ...  Read More

The world may be on fire around us and yet Jesus will preserve us until the final day of our lives or the last day of the history of this earth. Our perseverance and preservation is an absolute guaran...  Read More

How will we ever return? We must return to the unadulterated, non-partisan, all-inclusive, non-discriminating, call of the Gospel that urges every person to turn to faith in Jesus Christ and repent of...  Read More

God allowed these horrible things to happen in order to punish the sins of His people. In Lamentations, sin is serious, and rebellion is not tolerated. Sin has debilitating and awful consequences. ...  Read More

We all have our ideas of what our own kingdom should look like. We really start building this kingdom when we strike out on our own. Some of us have achieved these kingdoms only to realize we still ha...  Read More

We keep scrolling our feeds looking for answers. Or we try to hide our heads in the proverbial sand until everything passes over. But this is not what God wants from us. Jesus, the Lawgiver says, “Lov...  Read More