New Heaven and New Earth is the end goal. God is renewing the world. And it starts with renewing people who then live differently as they follow Jesus and join God on his mission to renew the world. The whole world is not God’s temple (earth is your footstool), and the New Jerusalem that comes...
We are now all God’s people. The mission was never simply about getting saved and going to heaven. Rather, something profound has happened through Jesus’ death and resurrection. The Lord of the earth has come, and you are invited to be part of His kingdom. Jews and Gentiles, male and female, slave and free, all...
Jesus often taught that the KOG has come. Through His death and resurrection, He further demonstrated the upside-down nature of the Kingdom. While others seek to lord over people, the true King serves. While others take life, the King lays down His own. While others strive to preserve themselves, the King gives His life, passing...
The fallen world is run by rebellious spirits, working alongside rebellious people and systems. Human beings gave over their authority to the enemy at the fall. Jesus nailed them to the cross and made a public spectacle of them. This is a victory, not a defeat. Here comes the final victory, a culmination of his...
After the resurrection, we see the cross differently. Jesus met some disciples and said to them, ‘The Messiah had to suffer all these things to enter his glory’. Jesus, before his death, said, ‘It was time for the Father to be glorified.’ We later see them begin to read OT prophecies about the Messiah and...
Jesus came and did what the first Adam failed at. He conquered the devil. Through his life, ministry and finally death and resurrection. And this victory was a victory for us all. Yet, it was not just a victory for us but also a showing us how to fight and win. If we want the...
To become like Jesus we must carve out time and space to spend time with Him. This is learning to practice the presence of God, learning to be in 2 places at once. At work and with Jesus, at the shopping malls and with Jesus, everywhere we are and also with Jesus. This is the...
Jesus resurrection is also the first fruit of the resurrection of all those who believe. Does this truth offer you hope in a year of grief and loss of even the life of those we have loved? Flesh and blood will not inherit the Kingdom of God. What ways of the flesh, sin, are you...
On ascension day, Jesus gathers his disciples and friends and declares that he has been given all authority and power and then gives them instructions. To go, make disciples and baptise them and teach them to speak the Kingdom of God and demonstrate the Kingdom of God. These things are a question of obedience for...
There is something about times of confinement and contraction that exposes our faith and what it is made of. We get to see our true confession. So some of the things we just believed out of the social pressure of corporate worship are being revealed in times of separation from each other. Today we look...
