We can hear the voice of the Good Shepherd even under the clamoring din of the voices of unbelief and skepticism that surround us.
Watch today’s Weekly Check-In with J. D. Walt as he wraps up the Awaken series and introduces our video of the Hebridean Revival in Scotland.
Condemnation is a symptom; sin is the disease. So to rid us of the symptom—condemnation—God must rid us of the disease—sin.
To travail in prayer is to stand in the gap between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world.
Though we may not, in church leadership, experience a constant state of joy, I think it valuable to consider what reflecting on the future joy set before us might look like, thus motivating us to endure.
Our calling is to press on beyond adolescent faith and grow up into the maturity of love, which is nothing less the fullness of Jesus Christ.
In this Seven Minute Seminary video, Steve Addison challenges our notions of mission and points us to a simpler way of obedience to Jesus and his Great Commission.
We can pray for signs and wait for wonders as though these were the markers that what we were looking for had finally happened. Or we could move in faith.
Nothing is impossible with God. Let’s call this the banner of awakening.
In Romans 8, Paul finally talks at length about the Christian life, and it is not an accident that there are some twenty references to the Holy Spirit.
Our imaginations must be discipled by the Word of God and the Spirit of God that we might learn to see the vision of awakening coming on the horizon.
The righteous will find in the end that the afflicted will be heard, the fatherless and the oppressed will be comforted, and today’s terror will be replaced by the joy of his divine presence.
