God of #compassion and #mercy

God’s love extends to thousands of generations, while His punishment extends to only three or four. When reading Exodus, many people only see a God who requires obedience and prescribes painfully obscure rituals. This view misses the heart of God completely. #Brendonnaicker #theologyschool #londoncitychurch #exodus

…and to you pastors who are paying these organisers have to pay people to listen to you then you are a bigger fool as in Galatians 3, for supplying this demand for peddling the Gospel in the name of Christ. You organiser, you think people in your community don’t know how you are surviving which is not by faith but by your tourist marketing package you are offering. #pastors #indiaevents #christianity #pastors #indiaevents #christianity #evangelism #missions #theologyschool #Londoncitychurch #brendonnaicker #sellingChrist

God is pleased when we seek personal encounters with Him rather than simply offering Him right behaviour. #brendonnaicker #theologyschool #relationshipwithGod #religious #conformity

Life with God often involves contradictions. We live long stretches of time between promise and fulfillment, and what we choose to believe about God during those times shapes our experience with Him. #Brendonnaicker #theologyschool

When life gets tough, we need to remember that pain and hardship can be explained by the debacle in Eden. But the story doesn’t end there, though many people act as if it does. We have to wrestle with the serpent’s question every day: Is God really good? We don’t deal with temptations about eating from the wrong tree, at least not literally. But the temptation to doubt God replays again and again in our daily lives. We ask God whether He is holding out on us or not, whether He’s looking out for us or we’re left to look out for ourselves. #Brendonnaicker #theologyschool #joburgchurch #londoncitychurch

God shapes our story for His purposes. We don’t know how He does that, but it’s extremely comforting because we all, to some degree, have dysfunctional families. If God can speak into the chaos of the patriarchal family through their enormous dysfunction—we read of rape and retribution and hostile rivalries— and by bringing meaningful design, just as He spoke into the chaos of Genesis and brought forth a world teeming with life and beauty, He can speak into our lives with the same purpose and the same result. #brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #theologyschool #joburgchurch #dysfunctionalfamily

“Is anything too hard for the Lord?”—is a foundational issue for all people of faith. #brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #theologyschool #joburgchurch

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil has given us heavy doses of independence; that’s always a by-product of having confidence in our own knowledge. Carried away as wanderers and estranged from God, we subject ourselves to His opposition, not because He opposes us, but because He opposes the direction we have taken. #londoncitychurch #brendonnaicker #theologyschurch -#joburgchurch

Opens with the account of the origin and meaning of human life. Then, shows how humanity willfully sinned, Genesis sets out the Lord’s plan for the reconciliation and salvation of fallen humanity. Under this plan, God would gradually reveal himself and, through a chosen people, progressively prepare mankind for Christ, His Gospel, and the Church, which are prefigured in this history. #brendonnaicker #londoncitychurch #theologyschool #joburgchurch

We often struggle to believe God is good when we are suffering. We only know how to look at our own circumstances and determine that something must have gone away either with God’s plan or with his promises. Reading the Genesis narrative reminds us that God keeps all of his promises to us, even though we may walk some through some rocky ground before we get there. #londoncitychurch #brendonnaicker #joburgchurch #theologyschool