When Jesus said “come follow me,” he wasn’t heading to Sunday school. He was on his way to heal the sick, befriend a tax collector, stand up for an adulteress, and proclaim good news to the poor. Discipleship and mission …
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We rush through life, barely slowing down to experience our days. But time is a gift that we sometimes forget we’ve been given. Rediscover the gift of time in 2017 through the Jewish and Christian holidays. From the weekly Sabbath …
Christianity Today has unveiled their book of the year awards, and the winner for the Discpleship Book the of the Year is Crossing the Waters by Leslie Leyland Fields! “Drawing from a trip to Israel and from her family’s lives …
The Bible begins to give us some clues about godliness in its earliest pages. In a very short three-verse summary of Enoch’s life in Genesis, Moses twice describes him as one who “walked with God.” The author of Hebrews gives …
Identifying 3 Disconnects We have With Our Jewish Foundations One of many gifts my Jewish identity offered to me was the deep conviction that the Old Testament and New Testament were a single, seamless narrative revealing God’s perfect nature and …
Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke these famous words to Congress: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire …
As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by …
Grace and obedience aren’t enemies. They’re friends. Grace doesn’t prevent obedience. Grace enables it. “Work out your own salvation,” Paul says “with fear and trembling.” Sound legalistic? I know, it does to me too. This is why Paul goes on …
To welcome the stranger is to welcome Christ. Believer or nonbeliever, attractive or unattractive, admirable or disreputable, upstanding or vile—the stranger is marked by the image of God. Therefore, we are called to love. The Greek word for hospitality in …
When Jesus was baptised, the Spirit descended and the Father announced to the world how very proud he was of his Son: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22). At this point …