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

Repudiate (Engaging Culture, Part 1)

Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’” Matthew 21.12, 13

A lesson about culture

The story of Jesus driving the money-changers out of the temple has an air of comic relief to it.

No Idols of Any Kind

The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Morning Meditation

Exodus 20.23

“You shall not make anything to be with me – gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.”

Be Subject

1 Peter 2.13, 14

13Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, 14or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of those who do evil and for thepraise of those who do good.

Ephesians 4:26-32 [1]

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, andgive no opportunity to the devil.Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk […]