This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John 3:16
I had the privilege of attending the Newfrontiers prayer & fasting event this last week. There is always such a sense of God speaking during these times [...]
Archive > October 2008
lay down your life
shaped by the gospel
1 Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, [1] Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for [...]
how to be a pharisee
In preaching about the contrast between Saul and Stephen I have come to the important question which is:
What is the essence of Pharisee-ism?
Jesus disgust at the Pharisees is universally apparent, never more so than in Matthew 23
13“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s [...]