The challenge is not just to believe in the eventual salvation promised to us when we die, but in the ways God personally rescues us now. Our struggles in this life are a set-up: a stage carefully set to display God’s delivering power to the rubber-necking world around us. This has always been how God proves His presence and reality to the outside world: through the contrast that occurs when frail mortals carry immortal blessing within them…
Read MoreIn the pilot episode of “The Wicket Gate Podcast,” Mike and Zack spend time talking about where our church has been and where the church is now…
Read MoreIn our present culture, we’ve lost that basic truth: every life is made and is allowed to live by God’s sovereign authority. One of our main purposes in life is to allow God to create new life from us, through children, God willing…
Read MoreHere at the Village, we seek to walk in the ancient paths that have been tread for us by the saints of old. Our greatest desire each week is to hear from God’s Word so that we may be instructed in how we should live this one life that Yahweh has given us…
Read MoreAlthough the chapter’s focus is the relationship between truth, love, and grace in marriage, one of my main takeaways was all the tangible illustrations of how marriage reflects Jesus’ relationship with the church. Below is a summary of 9 parallels I found between these relationships…
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