The Central Moment

Two mountains, two covenants, two realities--with the dividing line being Jesus himself! His Kingdom cannot be shaken and he invites us to live worshipfully and securely in him.

The Ten Commandments center around loving God and loving others. They embody a timeless moral code that serves to protect our marriages, our property, our dignity, our reputations and our lives.

In a culture that has replaced honoring others with self-preoccupation, God’s principles for thriving and prospering have not changed. And in God’s sight, it all starts with our parents!

Exhaustion, sleep-deprivation and stress are all marks of contemporary life. No wonder the God who created us also paced us -- not only in our lifestyles but also in our whole understanding of how to relate to him.

There is one thing in life that is more important than anything else. That priority is the reference point for all of living and the doorway to living it fully.

Good Friday was only ‘good’ because Jesus did something for us that we could not do for ourselves. He became the sacrifice for our sin and, in doing so, he defeated the very power of sin itself. We can be truly free!

Grace is given to every person who trusts in Christ -- grace not just to forgive us but grace to empower us to serve in partnership with Christ. It all flows out of what happened at Easter!

Every one of us needs prayer. We take responsibility for having prayer partners in our lives who intercede specifically and often for us. But there is another who intercedes for us at the right hand of God -- Jesus himself!

The power of the Holy Spirit in our lives is often characterized as ‘living water.’ There is nothing like the moving of the Holy Spirit’s power in our lives. Because Jesus was struck at the Cross, ‘living water’ flows to us!

What can truly satisfy our empty souls and address our spiritual hunger? Only our Creator who sent his Son, Jesus, to be the ‘bread of life’ -- broken on the Cross and multiplied to us in resurrection power.