We don't have to win a war or win an election for the Kingdom of God to come among us. The Kingdom of God does not come by bullets or ballots; it comes by the Cross of Christ. Our task is to be a community formed around the Crucified One - a community of grace and love where each of us takes up our cross to follow the Lamb

When we bring our wounds to Jesus it initiates our healing. With joy we can draw water from the springs of salvation

There is one continual plan of salvation that began long ago and culminated in Jesus. Jesus came to fulfill what the law and the prophets had tried and failed to do. He brought a new law - the law of love.

Between the house of bondage and the land of milk and honey there is a wilderness. The wilderness is a necessary part of the journey of faith. 

Just as Christ was the rock in the dessert that brought forth water, Jesus will be with us and give us water for our souls.

Salvation looks like being led out through the sea, freed from bondage. God sees, hears, cares.

No one looms larger in the story of the first Testament than Moses. Moses the deliverer, Moses the lawgiver, Moses the man who talked face to face with God, Moses the man who went toe-to-toe with Pharaoh. But at midlife Moses was none of these things. He was only a forgotten figure with a scandalous past; a former prince in Pharaoh’s court who was now a fugitive working for his father-in-law in the outback. But all of that changed in the mysterious encounter with the burning bush.

The book of Revelation is all about making fully known the person and plan of Jesus for the redemption of mankind. In it we see the establishment of the new covenant and the kingdom of God. The entire book of Revelation reminds us that Jesus is on the throne. This second week focusses on chapter 13-22 and a victorious church, the Bride of Christ, who following the death of her first husband (the old covenant) becomes married anew to Jesus, carrying the message of the gospel and the coming of the kingdom of God into the world.