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.
The Christian challenge is determining what winning looks like in a game where the leader went through crucifixion to get to resurrection.
Humility is the full embrace of the fullness of what we are and the rising up into the fullness of that responsibility.
Celebrity happens when an image bearer of God is turned into an idol and worshipped in the place of God.
The war is already won, and we will finally win, but the battle still must be fought all the way to the end.
A relationship with Jesus Christ is not a static state but a dynamic reality. It is ongoing and calls for interactivity.
So much happens in a worship gathering, so many good things, and yet we can completely miss the main thing.
Jesus of Nazareth, the risen and ascended Lord, is present to us by the power of Word and Spirit.
Fasting is a means whereby the Holy Spirit indwells his people to do something for him, in his stead, and by his power.
In the early church, worship, prayer, and fasting were not the performative activities limited to a special occasion—they were a way of life.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
We do not possess the power of God. The power of God possesses us.