Matthew 13 - The Kingdom is Like...

Matthew 13 - The Kingdom is Like...

Matthew tells us that from this point on, Jesus taught the crowds only in parables. He is not hiding truth from the hungry. He is protecting it from the hard hearted, and at the same time giving it in a form that only the humble can receive. Parables are not riddles for the clever. They are doors for the teachable. Which one are you?

Deconstructing Desperation Part 2

The prophets of Baal show us what worship looks like when you believe god is distant. The New Covenant shows us what worship looks like when you know the living God has made His home within you. We do not harm ourselves to get His attention. His blood has already been shed for us. We do not scream to wake Him. He lives in us as the hope of glory.

Deconstructing Desperation Part 1

Global movements built on consistent desperation were flowing from the headship of a person who was in compromise. And that profound compromise was masked as prophetic zeal and then projected shame onto an entire generation. And what was proclaimed as spiritual hunger suddenly became a cry of guilt disguised as spiritual depth. And that culture taught hundreds of thousands of young people that perpetual desperation equals health and surrender before God. And it was wrong.

The Descent of God

Your salvation is not primarily in believing a set of propositions about what Jesus did on the cross. Your salvation is Christ Himself. The entire sweep of His life, death, resurrection, ascension, and the outpouring of the Spirit is the objective reality into which you have been brought into by sheer grace.

Believe Into Jesus

The eternal Son descended so we could ascend in Him. The Bread once broken now lives unbroken in us. This is the revolution of grace, the forgotten heart of the Gospel restored. This is Christic Covenant grace where we are not striving for bread, but feasting on the Bread who has already given Himself. The life He imparts is not earned but received. It is His resurrection life flowing into ours.