Realizing the presence, promise, and power of the Kingdom of God.
Realizing the presence, promise, and power of the Kingdom of God.

Light of the World (Why We Need the Church, Part 5)

“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.” Matthew 5.14-16

Jesus and light

Jesus’ audience here was His disciples, primarily. He spoke to them as a group, not as individuals, to guide them in thinking about their corporate mission in the world. The disciples, and those who would become disciples through their efforts, were to think of themselves as the light of the world. They were not merely to shine light into the world. They were to be the light of the world – together, as one Body, with one mission.

Romans 14:7-13

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that […]

A World of Spirits

Foundations of a Worldview

Exodus 23.23, 24

For My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them…” 

Every Man His Snare

Every Man His Snare

Ecclesiastes 7.25, 26

25I applied my heart to know,
To search out and seek out wisdom and the reason
of things,
To know the wickedness of folly
Even of foolishness
andmadness.
26And I find more bitter than death

The woman whose heart is snares and nets,
Whose hands
arefetters.
He who pleases God shall escape from her,
But the sinner shall be trapped by her.