Posts with the tag “christ”

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All Roads Lead To Jesus - First Thessalonians
March 6th, 2021
The already and the not yet of the Kingdom of God is why we don’t have to fear when an evil government is ruling, when godless kings persecute the church, when we battle with personal struggles, or wh...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Colossians
March 4th, 2021
There is no need to add any created thing to the work of the one who is supreme over all creation. ...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead to Jesus - Ephesians
January 13th, 2021
If the church wasn’t about a man like Paul, then it most certainly isn’t about a man like me. The church was always about and will always be about its true Senior Pastor. King Jesus is the Head of His...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Zephaniah
September 8th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Micah
August 27th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Jonah
August 25th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Obadiah
August 24th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Amos
August 20th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Joel
August 19th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Hosea
August 17th, 2020
God desperately loves His people, even the broken ones. Oh yes, we are all the broken ones. ...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Daniel
August 14th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Ezekiel
August 13th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Lamentations
August 11th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Jeremiah
August 10th, 2020
When we pile on the injustices in our world, the lack of true leadership in important places, bickering and fighting on 24-hour news cycles, and the politicization of the most mundane tasks, it almost...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Isaiah
August 6th, 2020
The Gospel story doesn’t stop when a person comes to faith in Jesus. Yes, our sins are forgiven. Yes, we have secured an inheritance of eternal life. But the story continues. Jesus is making all thing...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Ecclesiastes
August 1st, 2020
Our purpose is not found in our biggest moments or our worst failures....  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Proverbs
July 31st, 2020
Through the Gospel, we have a proper view of all of the attributes of God, a proper view of the depth of our depravity, a proper view of the depth of God’s grace, and a proper view of how grace leads ...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Psalms
July 28th, 2020
Those were the nights when Jesus sang for her in the day. But when the night came, my wife continued to sing the words her mommy sang to her. ...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead to Jesus - Job
July 27th, 2020
I don’t think that our memories will be wiped clean in heaven. I think that we will remember every tear and every moment of terror in grief. But we will remember it in the context of the glory of Chri...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Esther
July 24th, 2020
We aren’t good enough. We sin too much. We aren’t worth the glory of God. Of course, all of this would be true were it not for Jesus....  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - 2 Chronicles
July 21st, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - 1 Chronicles
July 20th, 2020
Here is some even greater news. If you have come to faith in Jesus, you are part of that family tree in the Scriptures. Every name that is listed in those family trees is the name of a normal everyday...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead to Jesus - 1 Kings
July 16th, 2020
Solomon is just the third king in a long list of kings that is not The King. In Solomon, we see a faint glimmer of the perfect wisdom and endless riches of Jesus Christ the King....  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - 2 Samuel
July 15th, 2020
The reason we get so angry when we see our sinful patterns in others is probably multi-faceted. But I do know that one of the reasons we get angry is because we forget about the grace that was extende...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Ruth
July 12th, 2020
God has not left us destitute in our sinful condition. He has provided a Redeemer who offered himself, bought us with a price and calls us into his family....  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Judges
July 12th, 2020
The greater news in that civil rights march came from the words of Amazing Grace. The justice and peace we all want is found only in the justice and peace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Joshua
July 11th, 2020
We often don’t think of Jesus as a warrior king. But the Bible paints a different picture... he is not coming back in the same way that he came the first time....  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Deuteronomy
July 10th, 2020
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
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Numbers
July 9th, 2020
We don’t need more of the death scroll. We don’t need more talking heads. We don’t need more political talking points. We need more of Christ. He is our water in the desert. Our souls and our hearts a...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead to Jesus - Leviticus
July 8th, 2020
Jesus who was without sin became sin for us so that we could become the righteousness of God. Our sin for his righteousness. Has there ever been a more uneven exchange in all of history? Has there eve...  Read More
by Dan Betters
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All Roads Lead To Jesus - Genesis
July 6th, 2020
My grieving and broken heart would find hope in the days of grief that lay ahead of me once I left that flash of brilliance in the sky. My hope would be found when I realized that Jesus, the Creator a...  Read More
by Dan Betters