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Walking in love is more than having good intentions, it is choosing daily to serve, forgive, endure and offer what you have to others, even when it costs you something, living as Christ lived with commitment and compassion. Walking in the light means breaking away from hidden works, duplicity of...

Luke 16:1-13, then verse 9, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. The mammon of unrighteousness, in Greek “mamona,” mammon is an Aramaic loan word, wealth, the thing you trust in and notice, it is not...

Jesus is teasing the whole human instinct to build something permanent out of temporary materials and pointing it, for once, at the only place it can actually work. Jesus is not telling his disciples to be dishonest, he is telling them to do with eternal foresight exactly what the unjust steward...

Luke 16:1-13, commission, usury, honor, three interpretations and notice, not one of them turns the steward into a good man, every honest interpretation leaves him exactly what the text calls him, unjust, which means the praise was never about his character. So, what was the steward’s character...

Attitudes being transformed. Someone once hot-tempered, now patient, once selfish, now generous, the new man is not an unattainable ideal, but the active promise of those who walk with Christ. This new posture leads you to a lifestyle that reflects the very character of God, when you put on the...

Put on the new man, to abandon what you were and truly live what you now are in Christ, Ephesians 4:24. This figure of the new man represents a radical transformation, not merely moral, but ontological, it is a new identity that replaces the old corrupted nature. True faith does not perfect the...

Ephesians 3:16, this supplication reveals where the greatest spiritual battles truly occur within you, the Holy Spirit works in the invisible, in the deepest regions of the soul, where silent decisions shape entire destinies. This inner strength is not synonymous with emotional strength, much...

Luke 16:1-13, what morally was actually happening in those two transactions? The second interpretation, the steward was stripping out illegal interest, the Torah forbade a Jewish lender to charge interest to a fellow Jew, Leviticus 25:35-38; Deuteronomy 23:19-20 are flat about it, but wealthy...

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...