God sending his Son into the world that first Christmas was his open invitation to the world to get to know him. The revelation of the Father in the Son is the greatest act of God’s self-disclosure in all human history. Nothing could ever surpass this. Jesus was...
When you think about the Jewish blood sacrifices, do they suggest death and destruction to you? Do you imagine that people offered these sacrifices just to earn God?s forgiveness and favour? If this were true, what would it say about the cross? That it was a place of...
The blood Many believers use phrases like ?washed in the blood?, ?covered by the blood? and ?pleading the blood?. These lovely words express important truths, but they can confuse and mislead those people who don?t know what they mean. When we speak about ?the...
The coming of the Holy Spirit into the world made a radical difference to the prayer life of the people of God. Jesus, the ascended Christ, ever lives before the Father to make intercession for us. The Holy Spirit, our Helper, is the intercessor in our hearts...
The word ?hope? in the Bible is never ?hope so? or ?maybe?. It always means something certain, something we look for in the future and something that will surely come. As Christians we always have hope (a confident expectation) that God will come through for us. Psalm...
