The Agony of the Cross: What Did Jesus Fear?
In Gethsemane Jesus prayed for God’s will to be done, but he did so in agony, knowing that he’d experience God’s wrath at the cross so we won’t ever have to.
In Gethsemane Jesus prayed for God’s will to be done, but he did so in agony, knowing that he’d experience God’s wrath at the cross so we won’t ever have to.
Habakkuk wasn’t miraculously saved from his circumstances. Rather, in the midst of the brokenness, he chose to hope in the God he’d known, seen, and heard.
Three questions to help your local church and leadership team think about the plentiful harvest, and the opportunities specific to your context.
Church leadership shouldn’t fall to one person. Nor should proclamation. Both deny how God made us, for loving relationships. Elders need to know this.
Planting a church is very likely one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. Things rarely go according to plan, at least not to yours.
Is your Church spiritually healthy? The engine behind spiritual health and the fuel that keeps it running is simple but profound.
It’s difficult to distinguish between cultural and biblical notions of manhood. But, at its core, the latter looks like Jesus: holy, humble, and zealous.
Focusing on seemingly more serious matters and sin, one rarely hears anything about gluttony in the modern church. This is a potentially damning oversight.
How long? The refrain used in the book of Habbakuk echoes across every generation. A meditative reflection and application to 21st century struggles.
Like so many of us, Habakkuk struggles to trust God in the face of evil and injustice. So join him on his journey of learning to faithfully trust in God.
Fruitfulness in the Christian life is made possible not only by our faithfulness to God, but Christ’s. So Ezra offers a small picture of God’s grace at work.
Ezra’s faithfulness to teaching God’s people his laws and decrees and his devotion to studying and observing God’s law in many ways points us to Christ.
The fulfilment of a promise of God’s people being restored to the land he promised them, after suffering in exile. How it all points us to the gospel.
In Gethsemane Jesus prayed for God’s will to be done, but he did so in agony, knowing that he’d experience God’s wrath at the cross so we won’t ever have to.
Habakkuk wasn’t miraculously saved from his circumstances. Rather, in the midst of the brokenness, he chose to hope in the God he’d known, seen, and heard.
Three questions to help your local church and leadership team think about the plentiful harvest, and the opportunities specific to your context.
Church leadership shouldn’t fall to one person. Nor should proclamation. Both deny how God made us, for loving relationships. Elders need to know this.
Planting a church is very likely one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. Things rarely go according to plan, at least not to yours.
How long? The refrain used in the book of Habbakuk echoes across every generation. A meditative reflection and application to 21st century struggles.
Like water, when passion is concentrated it’s most effective. Thus we can’t raise up elders apart from training them with a theological basis for leadership.