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*This is a repost from Wade’s blog on 12-23-21. I remember that Christmas Eve gathering at my church many years ago. One of our members, Chris, brought his father-in-law, and from the moment the older man walked in, I could tell he wanted to be anywhere else but in a...

Last week we looked at four essential questions that can help us learn how to know the gospel, apply the gospel, and speak the gospel. The four questions again: Who is God? What has he done? Who are we? What do we do? When applied to our study of scripture and our...

This past Sunday, we considered what it means to put our hope in God, trusting him with every situation and circumstance. We often find it hard to trust God in the waiting: when we wait to hear if we've received the new job, when we wait for the results from a lab...

Last time we left the hanging question, "Why does God delay bringing his kingdom into fullness now?" We spoke of how Jesus ushered in God's kingdom in part five. We said that it is an "already-not yet" reality in which the blessings of God's kingdom are already...

Part 4 of our series left us asking, "Would God be faithful to his promise to gather and renew Israel? Would the promised Messiah finally fulfill God's mission that Israel failed to live out? How does God's Story continue? In the time between the Old and New...

In part 3 of our series, we learned that God had granted Israel an earthly king whose role in leading the people would help nourish Israel's missional identity and function as a blessing to all nations. God had promised this earthly king, King David, that another King...

Last time we learned that God gave Israel his law so that Israel could learn to walk in God's ways for God's glory in the sight of the nations around them—this was Israel's missional calling. The law was the means for Israel to live in a way that challenged the...

In part one of our short series, we saw how God had called Israel to be his missional people, living in the sight of the nations as a priestly kingdom and holy nation. Israel was to be a community on display—a missional community that would live in God's ways for...

The Bible tells the true story of God’s mission to rescue and restore the whole world. The missio Dei (Latin for “mission of God” or “sending of God”) involves God setting out on a long journey to restore his good creation from the ravages of humanity’s sin....

Today's blog post concludes our series on the Lord's Prayer. We've been saying that the Lord's Prayer is a prayer Jesus gave his disciples that reflected his own heart and priorities. As we learn to breathe in this prayer and live it out daily, our hearts become...