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30 Words | Jesus is God with Us
You cannot understand the Gospel as “good news” until you understand who Jesus is. And once you truly understand who Jesus is, there is no way you will ever understand the Gospel as anything other than good news! Jesus is not just a great teach...
30 Words | Creeds and Creeps
The Gospel is so simple a child can understand it, yet so immense that people have dedicated their lives in pursuit of it. This simple message radically changed the world until the world gradually changed the message. Throughout the years, the ...
selfLESS | Selfless Generosity
Money ... what people think about it, and how they use it offers a window into the human soul. Money is the source of much of our anxiety and almost all of our greed. No wonder the Bible calls love of it a root of all evil. It is also why Jesus ta...
selfLESS | Selfless Witness
“Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist” (Matt. 11:11). That’s high praise coming from Jesus. After all, “those born of women” pretty much includes everyone ever born! But why would Jes...
selfLESS | Selfless Service
Jesus modeled the kind of selfless service He called His disciples to practice. In fact, it was the selfless service of the early Christians that attracted the attention of the entire Roman world and led to the rapid growth of the first-century ch...
selfLESS | Mirrors and Windows
There has never been a time when people have been more confronted with “self” than we are today. From the rise in popularity of everything from self-help books to the “selfie sticks,” we are clearly a culture of people consumed with self. We are a...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | The End of the Beginning
When asked if the end of World War II was near, Winston Churchill famously replied, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” As we conclude our look at the life of the Apostl...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | Shipwrecked
Just when you think it can’t get any worse… it usually does! The question is, how do you prepare for the unthinkable? The time to make preparations for a storm is when the weather is still calm. The time to prepare a ship for an emergency at sea i...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | Tried
Have you ever felt like you were on trial? Maybe you actually were in a court of law or maybe it was just an intense conversation with a person asking really hard questions. The Apostle Paul was frequently brought before officials and interrogated...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | Arrested
Depending on how you count it, the Apostle Paul was arrested, tried and imprisoned anywhere between 3 to 5 times. Paul’s determination in the face of opposition is remarkable. Where did Paul gain the strength to endure so much persecution and suff...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | What the Holy Spirit Asks of You
Oftentimes, we ask the Lord for guidance when we have already made our own itinerary. We pack what we believe is important, set our own expectations, and establish our personal measures for success. In part ten of Journey to the Center of the Eart...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | Culture Clash
In part nine of our series, Journey to the Ends of the Earth, we look at the way in which we should challenge cultural idols while still maintaining an individual faith built on the truth of Jesus.
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | A Woman, a Slave and a Gentile
As a good Jew, Paul woke up every morning and prayed a traditional Hebrew prayer that went something like this, "God, I thank You that You have not made me a Gentile, a slave, or a woman..." Ironically, the fi...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | Finishing Well and Passing the Baton
Paul was not only a prolific church planter and evangelist, he invested deeply in the lives of younger men whom he would put in charge as pastors of the churches he was planting. The church in America is facing a crisis of leadership. Only three o...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | Divine Detours
The road of life is full of unexpected twists and turns. How we respond to those unforeseen detours says a lot about our faith. The Apostle Paul’s journey was certainly full of a lot of unanticipated diversions. Beginning with the Road to Damascus...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | Jumping Fences
Do you ever feel like someone keeps moving the goal post? You thought you understood what you had to do, how far you had to go, how much you had to pay, only to discover that more was required? Many of the early Gentiles Christians must have felt ...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | We Need A Hero
Throughout time and in every culture, there is evidence that humans have always sought out heroes. From the mythical gods of the Greeks and the Romans to the sports and entertainment stars of modern America, people are constantly seeking and makin...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | A Church that Changes the World
The church in Antioch was the first church to give Paul a significant leadership position, it was also the church that sent Paul on his first missionary journey, a journey that would lead to churches springing up throughout the entire Roman Empire...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth | Jesus Saves a Terrorist
Other than Jesus Himself, there has been no more influential person in the development of the Christian faith than the Apostle Paul. He authored a majority of the books that make up the New Testament, carried the Gospel throughout Asia and into Eu...