We want to think if we do the right things we—and our children—will somehow be immune from suffering and tragedy. It’s not true.
Jesus comes bringing the Kingdom of Heaven and in his wake we see the signs of the new creation—lepers cleansed and restored to community, dead raised, demons exorcised, sickness cured, storms stilled.
The Bible tells us that the same Jesus who was asleep in the boat on the Sea of Galilee is nearer to us now than our very own breath.
Commitment is about activity. Consecration is about identity. Activity is not a bad thing. It’s just not the measure of things when it comes to following Jesus.
Listen Now! May 30, 2016 Matthew 8:14-17 14 When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. 15 He touched her hand and the fever left her, and
Jesus has always many who love His heavenly kingdom, but few who bear his cross.
Discipleship is all about being taught and trained to work for the good of the world in the authority of Jesus Christ.
So often it takes an impossible situation or need to bring us beyond our own respectability and into the realm of desperation before God. And so often, this is precisely where God meets us.
Through the Sermon on the Mount and in the power of the Spirit, Jesus disciples us into his very same authenticity and shares with us his very same authority.
Are you being mastered by THE SERMON as the Wisdom of God or are you working to master it at the level of knowledge.
The fatal presupposition of much middle way thinking is that grace and truth are on the opposite ends of a continuum and that our task is to find some compromise in the tension between them. In Jesus’ way of thinking grace and truth are one thing.
Everyone clamors to find a “middle way” these days. I’m afraid that’s just another way of defining the broad path.
