by Daniel Burton | Mar 11, 2018 | Blog, Lifegroups
After the Parable of the Sower, Jesus continued to speak to the people in parables. He compared the truth to the light of a lamp, explaining that the measure we use to judge others will be used for us. We often take for granted the concept of electricity. The simple...
by Daniel Burton | Mar 4, 2018 | Blog, Lifegroups
For a largely agrarian society, a message of sowing and reaping seed would be immediately understood. As Jesus taught the people while he stood on the lake, he spoke to them the profound mysteries of an eternal and brilliant Kingdom. Yet he did so with the language...
by Daniel Burton | Feb 25, 2018 | Blog, Lifegroups
From all accounts of scripture, Jesus had just cast out demons from a man with multiple ailments. The man had been blind and unable to speak and had been healed by Jesus miraculously. After all, Jesus is a God who came to heal people and bring them to...
by Daniel Burton | Feb 18, 2018 | Blog, Lifegroups
There is power in a good story. Throughout the Gospels Jesus employed parables, or stories, to communicate the complex truths of the nature of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and what faith looks like expressed in the world. The parables allowed the complex, unfathomable...
by Redeemer | Jan 3, 2018 | Blog
10 Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Year By Don Whitney Once, when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the Lord rebuked them through the prophet Haggai. “Consider your ways!” (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging them to reflect on...
by Daniel Burton | Nov 12, 2017 | Blog, Lifegroups
Stop for a moment and consider where we are and where we’ve been. At the beginning of Exodus, the situation appeared fairly bleak for the Israelites. Enslaved and held captive by the power-hungry Pharaoh, the Israelites were facing their death and oppression. And...
