The Story of Conquering Love

Good News, not good advice

back view of a romantic couple running in the middle of the wheat field

I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband,…

Pr 14, Hb 12, Mt 11, 2 Cor 11, Ps 032, Gal 3, Jn 06, Ps 034, 1 Jn 3, Ps 001, 1 Cor 01, Ps 051, Jn 04, Col 1, Is 66, Ps 063, Pr 27, Ps 141, Ps 073, Eph 4, Col 3, Ps 147, Php 3, Is 57, Rm 07, Jn 17, Gen 03, 1 Cor 13, Is 30
The Gospel is for the believer

The Gospel is for the believer – Part 5

Washing with the Word/Sanctification Ephesians 5:25-27“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed…

Trembling before the Beautiful

Letter written to a friend sometime in 2006 I am still learning about this, so I do not know if I can explain this well and I do not have…

Mt 11, Is 06, Pr 05, Rev 01, Jn 06, Hb 04, Hb 13

Kingdom of the poor

Gospel, The Kingdom of God breaking through Questions:In Deuteronomy 15:11, God states that the poor will never cease from the land, what did this indicate about the “Promised Land”? Reading:In…

Is 61, Rm 03, Lk 16, Rm 05, Col 1, Is 55, 2 Cor 08, Deut 15
The poor

The Worship God brings to us. . . we bring nothing

In our pursuit of worship are we pursuing a “transcendent” experience where we emotionally feel a certain way or are we coming to worship knowing the power of God to…

Is 06

Holding onto our world

It is in our nature to hold on to our world view or to be conformed to the world’s viewpoint. “Worldly wisdom” becomes our refuge for it doesn’t call us…

Rom 12, Ps 051, Is 66

The Firstborn and Beginning of God’s Creation

BACKGROUND: The son of God, the son of man Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish…

Gen 01, Jn 12, Hb 03, Lk 03, Ps 089, Ex 33, 1 Pt 2, Pr 08, Deut 06, Gen 02, Jn 03, Ps 019, Tit 2, Deut 32, Ex 24, 1 Cor 02, Col 4, Jn 18, Gen 03, Jn 01, 1 Pt 1, Col 1, Deut 07, Num 06, 2 Cor 03, Jn 02, Deut 05, Mt 16, Jn 08, 2 Tim 1, Mt 25, Ps 002, Mt 24, Lk 02, Hb 07, Is 43, Mt 11, Lk 24, Rm 16, Eph 4, Jn 10, Is 45, Mt 13, Hb 10, Is 06, Ex 32, Col 2, Rm 08, Hb 02, Jl 02, Rev 01, 1 Kg 05, 1 Jn 3, Zech 06, 1 Cor 08, Rm 10, Is 42, Is 28, Hb 04, Rev 22, Eph 2, Jn 17, Gen 32, Mt 03, Acts 10, Hb 13, Zech 14, Mt 28, Rm 01, Ps 102, 1 Cor 15, 2 Pt 1, Acts 04, Pr 09, Php 2, Jn 05, Job 42, 1 Cor 13, Jn 19, 1 Cor 12, Eph 3, Pr 03, 1 Cor 01, Hb 01, Gen 12, Hb 12, Rev 03, 1 Jn 4

The Gospel is for the believer – Part 8

By faith we are washed by His word “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the…

Daily life, we love the poor

Daily Life/The Challenge Questions:Do you see the Kingdom of God as physically or spiritually present, or both? When do you minister to the poor? Under what settings? Reading: “Older men…

Mic 6, Ps 072, Lk 10, Is 48, Lk 09, 1 Pt 4, Ec 11, Pr 19, Lk 03, Job 31, Tit 2
The poor

Why does God’s forgiveness end at death?

In Alex O’Connor’s interview with Cliffe and Stuart Knechtie (Why Does God’s Forgiveness End at Death? – The Knechtles – YouTube), he asks why God’s forgiveness ends at death. Alex…

Ps 010, Pr 01, Eze 18, Ps 096, Is 26, Hb 04, Eze 33, Lk 13, Is 16, Zeph 3, Is 01, Mt 23, Is 55, Zech 7, Jn 03, Dan 09, Acts 17, Mt 11, Jer 07, Neh 9, Ex 34, 1 Tim 2, Jer 05, Ps 089, 2 Ki 17, Ps 095, 1 Jn 3, Hos 3, Rev 22, 1 Chr 36, Lk 15, Dan 12, Hb 03, Jer 25, Lk 16, 2 Cor 07, 2 Cor 10, 1 Kg 21, Rm 08, Mic 7, Rm 02, 2 Th 2, Rm 10, Jer 31, Is 30, Ps 098