The purpose driven church provides a method of organising and running a local church. It defines five purposes which are intended to work together, synergistically to facilitate church growth and evangelism. Link: Amazon Length: 400 [ Read More … ]
Link: Amazon Length: 208 Difficulty: Easy-Popular Topic: Evangelism, Social Justice, Cross-cultural Mission Audience: Mainstream Christians Published: 2015 This book reminds me that combining evangelism with other Christian ministries can have a powerful effect on the [ Read More … ]
In this post we look at the law court theme associated with righteousness and justification. Most of this has already been covered in the Kingdom of God. Here we cover some more specific passages to [ Read More … ]
In this post we look at the how righteousness language is applied to the kingdom of God. Today’s post especially applies to God himself. He is the righteous king over all creation. This is the [ Read More … ]
From Matthew 5-6 Today’s passage is generally known as the ‘Sermon on the Mount’. Its chiefly about what those in the kingdom of Heaven look like now and what will happen to them in the [ Read More … ]
From Lamentations 1.1-3.36 The book of Lamentations is made up of five poems, each an expression of grief over the fall of Jerusalem. Like a eulogy at a funeral, these laments are intended to mourn a [ Read More … ]
From Isaiah 59-63 God is sending his servant to his people in exile. He has anointed him to deliver good news of comfort and salvation. The Jubilee year has come. God’s people will become oaks of righteousness. They [ Read More … ]
From Proverbs 13-15 Do you think yourself rich or poor? Today’s passage has a number of things to say about gaining wealth and what it means to be wealthy. Jesus gets us to rethink our [ Read More … ]
From Psalms 9-16 Psalm 9 and 10 share an acrostic pattern (sequence of Hebrew letters starting each section). They are believed by some scholars to be one Psalm broken into two parts. Today we look [ Read More … ]
From Job 24-28 Job’s question today is why God does not let the righteous see that he is punishing wickedness. He argues God is seemingly inactive in the face of human suffering at the hands [ Read More … ]