One of the most pivotal points in my walk had to do with my understanding of God's Kingdom, the authority of Christ, and what that meant for my life right here, right now. My previous perceptions warped my understanding of the Gospel and what Jesus really came here to...
Jesus, God in the flesh, had a mission and purpose for coming and the cross was part of God’s sacrificial work and means to free us and enable us to live in His Kingdom on mission FIRST - right here on earth, right now. Jesus is our example of how to do this – living...
Any group or church can call itself Christian. That doesn’t mean anything. It can be all talk, womp-womp-womp, with no real evidence of Jesus or the cultural values of Heaven operating in and through them. But there’s also no truly Christian group or church that’s...
Remember what our mission is Through faith and repentance in Christ, we each make a choice to join the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ has one common Kingdom mission and ministry: to love others as Christ has loved us, which includes proclaiming the Good News of...
2020 was a GREAT year, right? If we understand our salvation through the lens of conformity to Christ, then 2020 should have been a seriously GREAT year for us Christians. 2020 provided lots of opportunities to SEE the ugly in ourselves and lots of opportunities to...
Where our comfort zone ends, the will of God begins We are creatures of comfort and habit. And since we love our suffering, testing and trial free zones, we are easily lulled into being content with the status quo of our religious traditions and habits. If we were to...
There are only two kingdoms. You realize that, right? There’s the Kingdom of Heaven and the kingdom of Hell on earth. That kingdom is completely divorced from God and rejects His standards, no matter what it tells itself. Because there are only two kingdoms, there are...
“Enough” of a Christian doesn’t mean “enough” with God. The self-satisfaction we can feel as Christians is killing us because we can really believe that whatever we do for God is good enough. We can feel confident that since we’re probably enough of a Christian for...