[This post needs a preface. America and biblical Israel are not the same. We do not follow the Gospel of God and Country. We follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ and God’s covenant people is the church, not America. However, there are similarities...
Our language and rhetoric reveal our burdens, passions, and priorities. Interestingly, the language in social media surrounding the election is quite passionate. When I hop on Facebook or Twitter, I see that people are infuriated, frustrated, angry...
Have you ever thought about the simple fact that people respond to Jesus very differently? There are those today who love him and willingly die for him, there are others who hate him and wish they never heard the name again, and then there are those...
Have you ever noticed that the Old Testament is significantly longer than the New Testament? In fact, counting by books alone, the Old Testament makes up 59% of the Bible. Counting overall content (which counts for book length), the Old Testament...
On Saturday morning your next-door neighbors hear a knock at their door. They greet two neatly dressed people who introduce themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs). Immediately the JWs begin to tell your friends about “paradise on earth,” wherein...
I mentioned in this post that the Bible compares Jesus and the Church to a married couple. I noted that the points of comparison between the two are deep love and commitment (self-sacrificing love and commitment). This isn’t the only metaphor the...
The Bible calls the church is the “Bride of Christ” (Rev 21:2, 9-10; John 3:29; Mark 2:19). But what are the points of comparison between a husband and wife and the Church and Jesus? First, there is a deep love between the two. This love is self...
Surprisingly, the Kingdom of God isn’t mentioned much these days in the church. It’s surprising because it’s the one thing that Jesus talked about most often. Jesus’s life and ministry were shaped around the concept of the Kingdom of God and...
I wanted to share this excerpt from today’s entry from Oswald Chamber’s My Utmost for His Highest because it has as direct correlation to what I shared in this post. Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Luke 18:31. Jerusalem stands in the life...
To continue with the theme of calling, I want to point out three things about calling that I believe are essential. First, our calling is not about us. Often times we think that God’s mission in the world is to make people (us) happy. I hate...