Parables of the Kingdom ~ Mustard Seed & Leaven

As we continue today discussing how it is we live and fulfill our present purposes in the midst of the tension we live in a time between times.  That we live in a present but not yet fully fulfilled promise, present but not yet Kingdom, and present but not yet life.  We will be continuing…

Parables of the Kingdom ~ The Wheat and Tares

As we discussed last week, we will be looking at the various parables of the Kingdom this Lenten season. We are doing this to learn more about His Kingdom, and how it is, we are to be citizens of this Kingdom while still residents in a world opposed to such things. Acknowledging fully, we live…

Parables of the Kingdom ~ Present but Not Yet

Today we start a brand new series launching from our former series, Resilient faith, where we are discussing how to live such faith in the tension and reality we today face.  In that, we have been given a wonderful present promise but not yet fully fulfilled.  A present life but with yet still more to…

Resilient Faith ~ Takes the Next Step

Today we are going to wrap it all together.  Everything we have been discussing for the past several weeks.  Knowing to have a resilient faith we must willing to do something about it. To take the next step we need to take to develop and have such a faith. There is no hope of having…

Resilient Faith ~ Has Meaningful Faith Relationships

Over the past several weeks we have been looking at what it means to have resilient faith. Faith that can stand firmly for Christ no matter what it may face in this world.  Even if.  Even if it would cost us everything.  We have been looking at what it means to have this faith, and…

Resilient Faith ~ Practices Cultural Discernment

Resilient faith in Christ, faith that can stand boldly in the face of the pseudo-Babylonian anti-faith culture we live in is a faith that not only knows how to discern ethics, right from wrong, good from evil in a Godly manner. It is a faith that seeks to put such discernment into practice every day,…