Romans 8:16 (NASB) For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
God has been breathing life into dead things since Day 6 of creation! And he has called us to do the same. In the beginning, God called things that were not as though they were already in existence. He spoke the...
Ephesians 1:22-23 (ESV)
22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Why did Jesus come? Why did He endure all things for the joy set before Him? Why was the plan hatched in the secret strategy rooms of heaven that would reveal this mystery of the Lamb who was slain from...
John 1:1–51 (ESV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
I love the Word of God....
Genesis 1:27–28
27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
It’s time to recover the glory...
Genesis 1:27–28
27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
This is one of my favorite...
I love how Paul puts it in Romans 6. "Guys! What are we saying here?! Should we just continue living a lifestyle of sin; since we now know that we have forgivesness in Christ Jesus?! How can we continue to live in something that we have put to death?! Don't you know you are selling yourself short the freedom that you have obtained through Christ?!..." A short...
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7 (ESV)
Throughout the gospels Jesus made certain statements that were so simple. We have a tendency to take simple elements of the kingdom and make them bigger and more complicated than they really are.
I have spent more than two decades leading worship in various churches...
Those Who Knew Jesus…Waited
I have read this passage more times than I can count. Last week I read this passage again several times leading up to our Good Friday gathering at The Bridge Metrowest. Four fresh thoughts popped in my head as I read the story of the cross again! Here is the last of four:
Luke 23:44-49 (The Passion Translation)
It was now only midday yet the...
The Roman Captain Gets it. The crowds do not.
I have read this passage more times than I can count. Last week I read this passage again several times leading up to our Good Friday gathering at The Bridge Metrowest. Four fresh thoughts popped in my head as I read the story of the cross again! Here is the third of four:
Luke 23:44-49 (The Passion Translation)
It was now only...
Jesus did not give up His sovereignty in His suffering.
I have read this passage more times than I can count. Last week I read this passage again several times leading up to our Good Friday gathering at The Bridge Metrowest. Four fresh thoughts popped in my head as I read the story of the cross again! Here is the second of four:
Luke 23:44-49 (The Passion Translation)
It...