Today Edgar focuses on the question, “Does God Heal Today?” Does healing happen today? Does God heal today? Yes. Through medical intervention and even through miraculous intervention. Jesus healed out of compassion and two, Jesus healed as a demonstration of the Kingdom of God. He felt people’s pain deeply and it moved him to action....
God always uses unimpressive things to bring about the miraculous work of healing, Jesus refers to Gods healing coming in unexpected ways, He went about healing and proclaiming the kingdom of God and as disciples of Jesus we are a conduit of Gods work, we can bring someone else to Jesus so that Jesus can...
For Jesus, it was common practice to withdraw from the crowds, go to a lonely place, and quietly be with God. This is one of the core practices of the way of Jesus. It is one of the places we get healing for our souls as we just sit beheld in the father’s loving-kindness.
Honour is a big deal in the Kingdom of God. Honour is what sustains relationships. We can only follow Jesus well in community. How can we honour each other when the culture of our day is one of contempt, anger and resentment? How can we, in Paul’s words, “outdo each other in honour”? We cannot...
The Invitation into the community of Jesus is an invitation to be part of a family.
There is a cost to discipleship. The cost is the cross of self-denial. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, body and strength. Love always costs us something. And we are invited to love God with all we are. It will cost you time, money, habits, and relationships, it will cost you...
When Jesus stood before Pilate and was asked if he was King He famously said that His Kingdom is not of this world instead He was born to testify of truth. For Jesus, the key to Spiritual warfare is being liberated from the devil’s falsehood and deception by the weapon of truth. This is why...
Why does it feel so hard to be faithful to Jesus? Why does it always feel exhausting? Why do you feel worn down in your minds and battered and bruised baRling to stay faithful and not give in to sin? Why does it get so hard to keep saying no to the things your friends...
Keep me safe, O mighty God. I run to you, my safe place. I said to Yahweh, “You are my Maker and my Master. Any good thing you find in me has come from you.” Yahweh, you alone are my inheritance. You are my prize, my pleasure, and my portion. You hold my destiny and its...
As we dive into the story of the book of James this week, James encourages us not to give up when the journey is hard, he encourages us to hold on. The journey of transformation is about leading us to a place where our desires are formed again into what God intended them to be in...
