Love
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Category: General
Tags: Advent, Christmas, God is Love, Jesus, Love
This is the first week of Advent, the season where we anticipate the coming of Christ. It’s a time to hear and enter into the story of how Jesus came out of love to give…
Responding in Love
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Conflict, Kingdom Living, Love
The world is full of conflict where evil begets more evil. Violence produces more violence. Arguments produce more arguments. It’s a tit-for-tat world. What is God’s strategy for stopping this conflict? How does God respond…
Loving the Unlovable
Category: General
Tags: Imagination, Love, Prayer
Mother Teresa had a prayer she spoke each day that enabled her to minister effectively: Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and whilst nursing them,…
Love Conquers All
Category: General
Tags: Conflict, Judgment, Kingdom Living, Love, Satan
Paul prayed in this way for the church at Ephesus: I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, [God] may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through…
Believing the Best About Political Opponents
Category: General
Tags: Faith, Love, Love Your Enemies, Love Your Neighbor, Politics
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
The surprising election of Donald Trump to President of the United Stated has exposed a profound, anger-filled divide running through the center of the American population. I would like to speak to the many Christians who…
Do Not Fear
Category: General
Tags: Fear, Love, Politics, Religious Idolatry
We interrupt this election season to bring you the following reminder: [F]ear is a diabolic force. Its ultimate creator is Satan, and he uses it to keep us in bondage (Heb. 2:15). Throughout history, leaders…
The Politics of Jesus
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Love, Non-Violence, Politics, Power, Sacrifice
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Many are so conditioned by the mindset of the world that they can’t even envision an alternative way of affecting society and politics other than by playing the political game as it is done by…
What Power Do You Trust?
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of this World, Love, Non-Violence, Politics, Power, Upside-Down Kingdom
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
Governments and nations have always relied on fighting to survive. They punish criminals who threaten their welfare. They go to war against enemies who attack their borders or stand in the way of their agenda….
Redefining Omnipotence
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Love, Omnipotence
Topics: Attributes and Character
Traditional, classical theology has equated divine power with God causing and determining all things to exist. God supposedly acts on everything as their cause, but nothing in any way acts on him. Yet, these assumptions…
God’s Love and Your Freedom
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, God is Love, Love, Open Theism
The most distinctive aspect of the revelation of God in Christ is Jesus’ demonstration that God relies on love to defeat his enemies and to accomplish his purposes. More than anything else, it was the…
A Brief Theology of God’s Love
Category: General
Tags: God is Love, Love, Trinity
The most profound truth of the Bible is that “God is love” (1 John 4:8, 16). This is the most fundamental thing to be said about God, for it encompasses everything else that can be…
Love That Keeps On Giving
Category: General
Tags: Love, Self-Sacrificial Love, Unsurpassable Worth
In English, we have one word for love. In ancient Greek, there were four different words that we can translate as “love.” And each has a different meaning. Let’s consider each briefly. Storge—referred to a…
The All-or-Nothing of Kingdom Living
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Love
Verse: 1 Corinthians 13
Nothing is more central to the kingdom of God than agreeing with God about every person’s unsurpassable worth and reflecting this in how we act toward them. Nothing is more important that living in Christlike…
The Kingdom Stance Toward Enemies
Category: General
Tags: Enemy Love, Kingdom of God, Love, Non-Violence, Power
Jesus was praying in the garden of Gethsemane, when a group of temple guards showed up to arrest him. Peter immediately drew his sword and started swinging it, cutting off a guard’s ear. From the…
Conservatives and Liberals in the Same Kingdom
Category: General
Tags: Conflict, Division, Love, Political Idolatry, Politics, Unity
Jesus did not allow the world to set the terms for what he did. For instance, he called Matthew, a tax collector, as well as Simon, a zealot, to be his disciples. Tax collectors were…
How God Changes the World
Category: General
Tags: Enemy Love, Jesus, Kingdom Living, Love, Unity
Verse: John 17
God’s hopes for us began before the creation of the world. And what God intended from the beginning gives us insight into how God works to bring about what he intends. In the first chapter…
The Coming Kingdom & Racial Conflict
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Kingdom of God, Love, Racial Reconciliation, Unity
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
In the book of Revelation, we see a glimpse into the future. John says he saw, …a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne…
Friday Lights: Glimpse of the Kingdom
Category: Lighten Up
Tags: Kingdom of God, Love, Peace
We interrupt the constant stream of violence and brokenness to bring you this glimpse of the Kingdom of God. Image via broken pencils are pointless