Living in Tune with the Mercy of Christ the King Matthew 25:31 - 46 Mercy comes from mercy. Our mercy to each other comes from God's mercy to us. The key to becoming a merciful person is to become a broken person. You get the power to show mercy from the real feeling in your heart that you owe everything you are and have to sheer divine mercy. – John Piper If we want to become people marked by mercy, we must first become people who see clearly. This means cultivating the kin

Zechariah 3 She came into the pool barefoot, straight from the men’s bathroom. No one stopped her. No one even seemed to notice. But I...

A summary and reflection on the book by John H. Walton I’ve always been drawn to the harder passages of Scripture—especially ones that...

The creator God At the heart of Scripture’s opening pages is a hope-filled message: God made the world to be His home among us. He reigns with goodness and power, never distant, never defeated. Creation and history are held securely in His sovereign hand. I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent abo

A summary and reflection on the book by G. K. Beale Have you ever noticed how people can begin to reflect the things they care about...

Finding Strength in God's Power Ephesians 6:10 - 20 Have you ever experienced a life change so significant that even your wardrobe had to...

As God revealed Himself to His people through His God-breathed Scriptures, He continues to reveal Himself to the people of the world through this same word – faithfully explained by His obedient servants. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men [and women] to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center

The Tragic Reality of Idolatry Isaiah 6 The Power of What We Behold We all become like something. The question is, what are we becoming?...

Isaiah 8:19 - 9:7 and Matthew 4:12 - 25 A World in Darkness Have you ever been lost in complete darkness? The fear, the uncertainty, the...

Discipleship as a Change of Kingdom and Direction Matthew 4:12 - 25 The New Testament is a book about disciples, by disciples, and for disciples of Jesus Christ… All of the assurances and benefits offered to humankind in the gospel evidently presuppose such a life and do not make realistic sense apart from it. – Dallas Willard Discipleship is not an optional aspect of Christian faith; it is the context in which we experience the Kingdom of God, salvation, and eternal life. As

A written sermon on Mark 1:1 - 18 Carl Bloch: Sermon on the Mount The Kingdom Has Arrived We live in a world where kingdoms rise and fall—where power structures shape the way we live, and where many of us sense that something is not quite right. We long for something better, something truer, something that does not shift beneath our feet. That longing is not misplaced. It is, in fact, the heartbeat of the biblical story: the story of a kingdom. From Genesis to Revelation, Scr