The miracle of the baptism of Jesus is how he transforms John’s ritual baptism of repentance into a relational baptism of complete affirmation, acceptance, and unconditional love.
We need to teach, train, and equip on spiritual parenting at church as it is a lost art.
Far beyond religious rites, in festivals God’s people enact the story of salvation as though it is happening again.
The church of Jesus Christ is a supernatural community where the presence of God inspires divine imagination in human beings to sow love through extravagant generosity.
We are surrounded by angels, often in the clothing of mortals who attend to our needs and hold us in times of pain.
God wants to form people who are humble and bold, unassuming and fully alive in the Spirit.
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Jesus, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you.
Consecrated: It means to make an offering of one’s life as holy unto the Lord. In other words, it means declaring every day, “Jesus I belong to you.”
The kingdom of Jesus is ever riding on the rails of the obedient, obscure, unknown sons and daughters of the King.
At the very core of everyone who ever lived and will ever live is an unquenchable hunger and thirst for the living God. Before we are anything else, we are worshipers.
