Inspired by 2 Cor. 4:6, Acts 4:2 and Rom. 1:16:
Almighty and Everlasting God, who caused the light of your glory to shine forth in the face of Jesus Christ, cause the light of your gospel to shine through your servants, that with great boldness they would testify that in Jesus there is the resurrection [...]
The problem with sin is not “because God said so.” Sin is a cancerous force which seeks to destroy all that is good, true and beautiful, leaving the wreckage of alienation and death in the wake of its violence.
In his Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, Jonathan Edwards describes one of [...]
In general, Jewish people reject Jesus as being the Messiah for one central reason. It is because Jesus did not do what the Messiah was expected to do. Christians speak of Jesus “dying for their sin,” “saving their soul,” or “getting into heaven,” but none of these concepts were anywhere close to Jewish expectation for [...]
Inspired by Isaiah 35 -
O God, who causes the wilderness and the dry land to rejoice, and whose very presence makes the desert blossom and burst into song: let that same power for the restoration of life overflow with compassion through your people, making the bodies of those sick well, those injured whole, those impaired [...]
Inspired by Isaiah 42 and Zephaniah 3
O God, who does not break a bruised reed, nor extinguish a smoldering wick: so breathe upon the embers by your great mercy sustained within your Church, that renewed in zeal and holiness, we might become an unquenchable flame, by whose light and love, the world might be consumed [...]
The central Biblical text I look to for understanding the “spirit of prayer” is Romans 8. In verses 19 and following, the entire creation is depicted as convulsing under the pains of travail, longing for freedom from the bondage of decay and death. All that lives remains under the domination of eventual decay, death and [...]
Revival means quite literally, “to come to life again.” If there is anything more desperately needed in our individual lives, relationships, communities, nations, the Church or the world, it is the life-giving, life-renewing, life-regenerating presence of God – the God who spoke all created life into existence, breathed the breath of life into human beings, [...]
I’ve decided to write a prayer for each of my “New Creation…Starting Now” posts. We’ll see how it goes…
Creator God, who is ever faithful to finish the work he started: so now continue through us the great harvest of new creation and expand through us the renewed humanity of reconciliation, that we might share with [...]
Gracious Lord, whose generous hand is open to every living thing: send forth your Spirit according to your promise, that, in the overflow of your liberality, all creatures would find new life, and the earth itself experience rebirth, through the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the [...]
Advent 1
Blessed are you, Sovereign Lord, God of our ancestors:
to you be praise and glory for ever!
You called the patriarchs to live by the light of faith
and to journey in the hope of your promised fulfilment.
May we be obedient to your call
and be ready and watchful to receive your Christ,
a lamp to our feet and [...]
