Jesus is Lord
The gospel of the kingdom is the good news that King Jesus has come and has begun to reign. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the Ruler of the kings of the earth. His kingdom was decisi…
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In reading Hosea, we’re reminded of what took place at Sinai: the marriage covenant between God and Israel. That’s where Israel became God’s wife, as it were. This way of characterizing the relati…
The Lord again indicts his people for injustice, one of the primary sins for which he decreed the end of Israel. Previously, the focus was on injustice in the gate, i.e., in the judicial system--cor…
It is not either/or proposition: either we preach personal redemption for the salvation of souls or we seek to establish justice in the gate. We can and we should seek to do both. If we love our n…
We will continue to see the progressive defeat and rolling back of all the powers of darkness as the gospel is faithfully preached and lived out by God’s people, and as we implore him to bless the pr…
"And his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace."
Isaiah doesn’t mean that the child to be born would literally be addressed by these names during his li…
Jesus is Lord. This is not just a religious conviction that leads to salvation, though it is that; but it’s also more than that. It’s a confession of the most basic fact of reality. And it must be…
Chastened and humbled, Jonah is recommissioned to preach to Nineveh, but is angered by the Lord's mercy toward them.
While still in the belly of the great fish, Jonah offers a faith-filled prayer of thanksgiving for deliverance from danger and death.
Jonah is called by God to go and preach to the city of Nineveh, the heart of the Assyrian Empire, Israel's formidable and brutal enemy.
The book of Jonah extols the great mercy of God and urges us as his people to desire mercy for others—even our enemies.