The cross of Christ is God's decisive answer to the problem of sin and its devastating power over us.
A PSALM FOR OUR CULTURE
A Psalm for working with people to help make the Bible more “useful” and available to us in our daily lives.
GOVERNING A CHURCH - ELDRERSHIP
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. Acts 14:23 (ESV)
HOW DO WE QUENCH THE HOLY SPIRIT
If the apostle Paul himself had not warned us about quenching the Spirit, who among us would have thought it was possible (1 Thessalonians 5:19–22)? To suggest that the omnipotent Spirit of God could ever be quenched, and thus restricted in what he might do otherwise in our lives, and in the life of the local church, is to tread on thin theological ice.
THE MILLENIUM MESSAGE
A thousand-year reign of peace, and the Lord Jesus Christ will be King. A time of righteousness and peace on the earth.
RECONCILIATION
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:19
FEASTING AND FASTING
Fasting can take many forms, but is primarily about putting ourselves second and God’s kingdom first. Feasting is about celebrating God’s provision and building up community; feasts should do both.
THE MILLENNIUM MESSAGE
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
NO JESUS, NO MILLENNIUM
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
PRINCIPALITIES AND POWER
Paul's contributions to our understanding of the powers of evil is to sum them up in the phrase 'principalities and powers'. For him they represent the sum-total of evil powers that threaten men both heavenly and earthly.