To be "in the Spirit", according to St. Paul in Romans 8:1-11, means living under the final verdict of not guilty, living a life of fulfillment of God's righteous requirement, and living with the guarantee of future resurrection. Readings and sermon were...
When Jesus' disciples ask him what sins caused a particular man to be born blind, Jesus shockingly says it happened not because of sin but because God wanted an opportunity to glorify himself. After Jesus heals him, the contest between the man, his family, the...
The final chapter in the story of the Bible (in other words – the story of human history) is God coming to live with his people on the new earth. God's goal was never to take a disembodied people up to live with him in heaven, but to come and live with us on...
Jesus conversation with the Samaritan woman should never have happened – it just wasn't appropriate. But Jesus ignored the appropriate to rescue the lost person hidden behind the cultural barriers that imprisoned her and kept her from redemption. He does the...
The 1,000 years of Jesus' rule and reign appear only here in Scripture, so it would be a mistake to put too much weight on any one supposedly definitive interpretation. But what is clear in Revelation 20 is that Satan is finally defeated, Jesus' victory begun...
In John 3 a religious leader named Nicodemus meets Jesus to ask him who he really is, and Jesus teaches him about the necessity of complete human transformation by the Holy Spirit and how God brings this about through the crucifixion of his own Son. Readings and...
