One of the narratives in our culture is to feverishly seek out something to be frustrated with and angry over. You’ve noticed that on Facebook right? “Can you believe this?!” Post. “Have you looked at this??” #areyoukiddingme? “Post and share this, we’re going to boycott, I am appalled at all that’s wrong in the world!” [...]
We do not fall short of our Kingdom potential because there is anything lacking in the way God made us, but because we allow ourselves to be chained by the past - rather than allowing our identities to be forged by our present standing in Christ. The Apostle Paul encourages us to forget what lies [...]
It is a good thing to seek to be like Christ, and yet first we must simply LIKE Christ. For to be like someone you don’t first like is little more than an exercise in religion. The beautiful paradox for the Christian is this: Once Jesus is utmost in your affections, once He becomes that [...]
There are 2 basins in the story of Christ’s betrayal. The night before, Jesus dips out of one basin in order to wash the feet of 12 men who failed. The next morning, Pilate dips into another basin, not to serve others, but to wash his own hands of responsibility. Each of us will dip [...]
This week we tackle the hotly debated doctrine of the Kenosis, or the “emptying” of Christ found in Philippians Chapter 2. Just what is it that Paul means when He says Christ emptied Himself in the incarnation? What exactly did Christ empty Himself of? You can be assured it was not His deity, there was [...]
In one of the most important verses in all of the Bible, Paul tells us to elevate the needs of others above our own, in order that we might walk in the power of the Gospel. Now God in His brilliant design, creates within humanity a tremendous diversity. Why does he do that? In order [...]
Paul says that for him, “to live is Christ and to die is gain.” In a beautiful irony, the proper theology of death leads to a kind of fullness in life. It is only in having full confidence in the resurrection, that we can live the kind of life that is not only unmoved by [...]
The Apostle Paul calls us to a “love that abounds in real knowledge and all discernment.” In a timely message for our current church culture, we discover that the love God wants us to demonstrate to the world - is not a stupid love. Out love is not to be a flowery kind of empty [...]
In the warmest of the 14 letters we credit to the Apostle Paul, the theme here in Philippians is joy and delight in the absolute centrality and superiority of Christ. In our first study, Paul calls this Church his partners in the Gospel, a profound implication we’ll unpack with every intention of encouraging you as [...]
