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…
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…
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…
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 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,…
Today we continue our series Resilient Faith, which is a discussion on how we can stand boldly for Christ in the midst of a world that wants nothing to do with Christ. Today being Scout Sunday, as we celebrate the Lord with our local Scout Troops from all over Tulare County, we are going to…
We have become very efficient in knowing about Jesus. We need to be more efficient in knowing Jesus, experiencing Jesus, and living for Jesus, so we could ever hope to actually make Him known. However, resilient faith, faith that can stand in exile, is more than head knowledge. It is a faith that has and…
The obvious truth of the present age is we live in a post-Christian society. In fact, we live in a post faith society. As our society by and large is going more and more resistant to any idea of a transcendent being or God. What is the church to do in such times? How are…
As established Jesus is truly the bringer of new for all things in the whole of all creation. In this He is the bringer of the new in us. He comes to make us new again. He comes to bring us new birth and new life. He comes to make us into the holy image…
Jesus has come. Jesus has won. Jesus makes all things new again. Jesus is the bringer of the new. How though? Sometimes things don’t feel so new. We must realize we live in the tension of the now and not yet, and Jesus indeed is making all things new again in us, in others, and…