The bible gives us a picture of God’s new reality—a reality that is here/real because of what Christ accomplished on the cross. And yet, this reality is held in a paradoxical tension of “already but not yet.” This tension is pervasive throughout Scripture—the end of Matthew Jesus says “all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” yet we see wickedness prosper over good; injustic ...
On Jan 1, 1990, President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia addressed his nation. It had been a few weeks sinces his country peaceably ousted the Communist totalitarian government that had held power for forty years. Only two days before Havel had been elected President by a parliament still dominated by Communists. Havel said:
We live in a contaminated moral environment... We learned not t ...
No one should have more joy in their lives than followers of Jesus. We have every reason to live in joy and express a joy that can change the world. If we have no joy in our life then we have missed the message of the Gospel.
Jesus came to bring joy into our lives, he does not want us to miss living with Joy
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