God’s People Are a Waiting People December 10, 2023 by: Jonathan Gibson A Future Orientation As early as Eden, God’s people have been a waiting people. Following the fall of our first parents, God made a promise that permanently oriented his people toward the future. God told the serpent directly, and the guilty pair indirectly:…
“Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.”
A Prayer for a Generous Heart What’s your most prized possession? There’s nothing wrong with having things, or with enjoying them. The problem comes when our things have us. Thankfully, God modeled a different way to live when He sacrificed His greatest treasure for us. His generosity is sacrificial and counter-cultural. When we give like God does,…
“[BOOK I Psalms 1–41] Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.”
Help! I Don’t Like Evangelizing December 09, 2023 by: Daniel Hames This article is part of the Help! series. You’re Not Alone You have probably clicked on this article because you find evangelism hard, daunting, or awkward. You’ve felt the cold shiver down your spine when the e-word has been mentioned in church. You’ve sipped…