News & Stories

My prayer is that our journey with Jesus will lead us to beautiful places and mission opportunities to make Christ known among the nations and as a multi-national and multi-ethic church.

One of the reasons I believe the gospel stubbornly even when deconstructive thoughts enter my mind is the craziness of our good news story, that through suffering and death comes life. I really don’t think any human would write that – and even the myth stories that involve sacrifice unto death still ultimately come back to human effort, appeasement of gods who often act like men, and thus wind their way back to a transactional relationship between gods and men. The gospel is a story of pure grace and promise. That is a true story that is revealed from on high, not created from below. 

For our fourth installment of reflections on revival, I want to briefly consider the essential work of God the Spirit’s work to give us confidence in the Bible.

My family went to see the movie Jesus Revolution yesterday during our annual Spring Break week. I am sure there are manifold reviews out there on the merits of the filmmaking, the accuracy of the historical details, and the overall storytelling so I will not prognosticate on those things. There was a scene in the movie that I may have been allergic to (somehow my eyes got all watery) and it brought me to this reflection…

Last week, we considered how prayer is essential to that hunger, both as a primer for revival, an engine during revival, and as an ongoing fruit of revival. Now, we turn to another essential, yet complex, part of preparing for, experiencing, and seeing long-term results of revival – seriousness about sin and repentance.