The Holy Spirit is the "first installment" of God’s promises. When we follow Christ, in the power of the Spirit, we become part of God's future breaking into the present.
The Holy Spirit works to bring about God’s purposes in the world. However, many of us haven’t been trained to attend to the Spirit’s presence in our lives and in the world. How do we come to know and live in the power of the Spirit in our dis-spirited age?
As everyone gets ready for this new school year, we close our series on Jesus' parables in Matthew 13 by asking what it means to be a student of the Kingdom of God.
While we tend to see judgment or deliverance, Jesus—like the prophets before him—speaks of judgment and deliverance. Where we stand with relation to God’s Kingdom determines what we see, hear, and understand.