The Blog
Preservation
If we hold onto this world, our hearts may become broken with overwhelming sorrow.
Broken No More
No matter how much I may have suffered, Christ has suffered that much more, so that I might suffer no more.
Temple Design
God will not dwell in a “temple” where there is no love and unity among the people.
Heart Surgery
We need God to remove the heart of stone that is in us. Our hearts become calloused and hardened whenever we seek first the things of this world. … We need God to put a new heart of flesh in us, one that beats with the blood of Christ pumping through its ventricles. … Without God performing His surgery on our hearts, we cannot be His people, and He will not be our God.
Friends
There is God, then there are His people, and then there is the rest of the world. In God’s economy, a person should not want to find themselves grouped with “the rest of the world.” Outside of God’s kingdom, there is no protection from the curse of sin. And most of all, there is no protection from the wrath of God itself. Inside the kingdom of God, we are protected by the blood of Christ that stains the frame of the gates of the kingdom.
Times of Trouble
Thinking about the possibility of disaster and destruction is not for the sake of making ourselves depressed and morose. That possibility ought to (1) make us cherish every day we are given and (2) conscientiously make God our refuge.
Second Chances
The message of Jonah is ultimately MISSIONAL. In fact, that is the ultimate message of the whole Bible. The application of the revelation of God must always be the mission of God in Christ Jesus to the ends of the earth.