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The mystery that was revealed to Paul, a calling that transcends the individual and reaches generations, Ephesians 3:3. This truth hidden for generations is now announced as a central part of the mission of the body of Christ, it is the heart of God’s redemptive plan becoming public, Paul not...

Serving God requires neither a stage, nor spotlights, just a willing and sensitive heart to the direction of the Holy Spirit and with this awareness your faith has purpose, you are invited to look at an even greater movement that God is realizing, uniting peoples, breaking down walls and forming...

Luke 16:1-13, here is the detail that tells you this steward knew exactly what he was doing, those are not random numbers. 50% off the oil, 20% off the wheat, those figures track the going rates of merchant markup and interest in the first century commodity trade. Oil carried a high markup...

Ephesians 4:25, this command seems contradictory, how is it possible to be angry and not sin at the same time? The answer lies in understanding that not all anger is sinful, there is a just anger, a holy indignation in the face of injustice, oppression and blasphemy against God. John 2:13-17...

Luke 16:1-13, the oikonomon “steward” could enter binding contracts in his master’s name, he could collect debts, he could buy, sell, hire, fire, his signature carried the master’s legal weight. This is the hinge the whole parable turns on, when the steward sat down with the debtors and slashed...

The image of a necessary metamorphosis, where the image of the earthly man must give way to the image of the heavenly man, not by a merit of natural evolution, but by a creative act of God that encompasses the tyranny of time. Paul argues that resurrection is the firstborn of a new species...

The order observed in the liturgy of now, finds its ultimate grounding in the physical and metaphysical reality of the resurrection, the event that anchors all Christian hope in the solidity of transformed matter. 1 Corinthians chapter 15 indicates that Christian hope does not reside in a...

Luke 16:1-13, a man robs his employer, gets caught and then on his way out the door, robs him a second time, bigger and nobody stops him. The master does not reverse it, the master does not punish him, the master does the one thing a robbed man should never do, he claps. And then Jesus, the one...

Many churches are weak, because their members cannot be honest with one another, they hide their struggles, pretend to be okay when they are broken, project an image of perfection that does not match reality. This culture of falsehood hinders true edification, speaking the truth, however, is not...

Mark 4:1-20, there is a tenderness waiting just a few verses later, because Jesus is not finished with the seed, in the same chapter, he tells another short parable, Mark 4:26-29. A man scatters seed, then sleeps and rises night after night and the seed sprouts and grows and he does not know...

Ephesians 4:25, lying is one of the most evident marks of the old man, since Eden, where the serpent distorted God’s word, lying has been the tool of deception. Jesus Christ identified the devil as the father of lies in John 8:44, there is no truth in him and that when he lies, he speaks from...

Mark 4:1-20, four hearts, one word, the only variable is the ground, but Jesus does something between telling the parable and explaining it and it is one of the hardest moments in the gospels, the disciples come and ask why Jesus teaches in parables at all. And Jesus answers with words that have...

Mark 4:1-20, the fourth soil, after three failures, the fourth seed finally finds good ground, soil that is open, broken up, deep and clear, the seed goes in, the roots go down, the plant rises and bears grain. And Jesus gives a number that the modern ear flattens, but the ancient ear would have...

Mark 4:1-20, the third soil is the most dangerous of the three that fail, because it does not look like failure at all, the seed falls among thorns and here the seed actually grows, it takes root, it rises, there is a real plant, but the thorns were already in that ground and they grow, too and...

Ernie, consider Romans 7:22-23, this is not a mild disagreement between two sides, it is an active conflict. Anxiety may lie and tell you God has left, it may scream that you disappointed him, that you failed as a Christian because you’re afraid. You can hold on to one unshakable truth in the...