The kingdom of our Lord is breaking into this world through the person, message, and people of Jesus Christ.  We, as Christians, are tasked with engaging our world/culture with the distinctiveness of Jesus; confident of God's ultimate triumph in recreation to establish a new heaven and new earth!

The church today has been given her marching orders for organization and character.  She must the Lord’s design, which, unfortunately, is often easier to say than to do.  Observations: The kingdom of man’s priority isn’t belief in God The kingdom of man’s priority isn’t knowing God The kingdom of man’s priority isn’t knowing the love of God The kingdom of man’s priority isn’t the community of God Grace Sagola is your practice field for the worship and priority of God’s […]

Our country is built upon the years of both the wisdom of the kingdom of God and the idolatry from the kingdom of man.  When we examine the core of America's policy decisions, we will see that they all relate back to the sovereignty of the individual to determine their own pursuit of happiness.

The culture of the kingdom of Rome was the strongest and most powerful yet known on the earth.  As this culture made it way into the church, it would have to be addressed as belonging to the world's ideology - a way of life that Jesus calls His followers to reject.

The kingdom of man will further strengthen its influence upon God's people through a process called enculturation.  The church's response must a be careful engagement and an avoidance of isolation - that we might reach the lost with a creative and intentional reframing of the culture.

The biblical characters exiled in Persia give us a glimpse of what it looks like to engage in a governmental and political system that does not fear or respect God. There's much for us to learn for today in observing how followers of God kept their focus on His promises and purposes while living as aliens.

This world can easily be identified with a spirit of Babylon.  She is that ancient type of describing the depravity of the kingdom of man.  Nevertheless, God has placed His church and fashioned His people to be the light for the kingdom of God.

Our current culture has many parallels to the world of the ancients. Yet, there is a pattern that the scriptures outline for the follower of Jesus Christ.  The very same diverse expression of "the gods of Egypt" must be replaced with a faith in Jesus.

The world, during the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, has many frighteningly similar characteristics to our world today. These patterns are observed under the values and ideologies of the kingdom of man.  Review:  The entire world is shaped by national tribalism and following false gods that elevate the secular to the sacred, as humanity assumes the role of deciding what is good God now has His own nation, from which the Kingdom of God will grow The ideologies of these […]

Our citizenship in heaven will come at the cost of our allegiances on earth.  Where each of us would fail in fully trusting God, we will see that Jesus succeeds.