Citizens of a heavenly kingdom
As believers, we are citizens of the most powerful kingdom on the earth. When we first believed, we received the Holy Spirit as a pledge of our inheritance through faith (Eph. 1:13-14). All our...
Communion — share in common
Gathered around the table on the Lord’s Day morning, there is a platter of unleavened bread and a pitcher of wine. Both are passed out, and we eat the bread and drink the wine,...
A service of humanity
There is no such thing as a perfect “church meeting.” Whenever we come together, we may try to create a program with no hiccups, a plan to prevent problems, or a structure to keep...
The expanse in us
If you have had the privilege to know the Lord, you may have had the experience that your life suddenly has new dimensions. Maybe you can’t quite describe it, but your universe swells, your...
Telling the world you’re content
People in the world are searching high and low for something that will satisfy them. But whether we seek satisfaction in physical, material, moral, or intellectual means, we will always thirst again.
This thirst of...
The great famine of our generation
The church today has become irrelevant in the eyes of the world, either pushed into the corner of society as a dead, religious institution or viewed as a strange group of old-fashioned traditionalists. But...
Lord, raise Your overcomers
When we look at the days ahead of us, at the uncertain future of the world, we pray, “Lord, raise your overcomers.” Today, amidst a rapidly changing global environment, people are lost in the...
A recovered humanity
What does it mean to be the Lord’s recovery? It begins with an understanding that there is something humanity has lost. As the church, we hold today not only an understanding of the problem,...