“Everything we do as Christians, everything we experience – good and bad, everything we witness that is hopeful or discouraging is in the shadow of the resurrected Lamb of God. EVERYTHING.”
Tag: God
A World Series Sermon
“Jesus, in this lesson to his disciples, puts this argument about who was greatest, who was the Goat, in a Kingdom context. To be the greatest, you must become the least and the servant of all BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT JESUS DID.”
The Spirit Leads
“‘Experiences of the Holy Spirit not only warms our hearts; it also strengthens our hands and puts our feet in motion. . . In these activities, God is busy acting upon us, placing something into our empty hands, enlivening our cold hearts, enabling us to be transformed in ways that we could never be on our own.'”
Hand, Eye & Foot
“Being in the inner circle with Jesus may make you egotistical and arrogant if you focus on the benefits of the relationship rather than sharing the good news of God in deed and word to everyone in your path.”
Have You Washed Your Hands?
“A pastor’s small son was told by his mother that he should WASH HIS HANDS because there were germs living in all that dirt. He refused and complained, ‘Germs and Jesus! Germs and Jesus! That’s all I ever hear around here, and I’ve haven’t seen either one!'”
Where Would We Go?
“‘Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.’ I once heard a preacher put it this way: ‘WHEN YOU SPEAK, WE COME ALIVE INSIDE.’ Peter knew there was nowhere else to go and no one else to go to. When Jesus speaks, we come alive inside. Peter then made his confession like he did in the other gospels in Caesarea Philippi, ‘You are the Holy One of God (the Christ, the Son of the living God).'”
Into Our Predicament
“God is very intentional, very active. God comes, God reveals, and God acts on our behalf. Amid God’s actions, there is something that begins to take place. We begin to believe that God’s activity is for our benefit, AND WE BECOME ACTIVE, AS WELL.”
God Cares (Comes Down)
“Do you know what it is when only God can help?”
Who Has Authority?
“When we want God to hear our pleas for our flesh and blood enemies to be destroyed by divine action, it ought to make sense for us now that God is not likely to answer such pleas.”
In a Snapshot
“It was glorious. In a snapshot, we all believed people’s lives were changed or being changed by the grace, mercy, truth & power of God that met them as they arose from the water with new life. Alleluia.”
Psalm 102 in The Message 