Prophetic Word: Embrace Your Limp as You Celebrate Passover During This Pandemic

Prophetic Word: Embrace Your Limp as You Celebrate Passover During This Pandemic by WAYLAND HENDERSON for Charisma News As we approach Passover while we stand in the midst of a pandemic, God is inviting us to embrace the revelation of Christ as our Passover. It was during the last plague in Egypt where we received a powerful insight to the power of the blood of the Lamb. It was the blood of the lamb covering the door post of the houses that caused death to pass by all the firstborn…

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WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT TAKING UP YOUR CROSS

WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT TAKING UP YOUR CROSS by Michael Horton for Core Christianity Editorial note: In Episode 394 of Core Christianity, How Do We Take up Our Cross?, someone asked, “In Mark 8:34-38, when Jesus calls his disciples to take up their cross, is this about our discipleship? Can you explain what Jesus means by this?”Mark 8:34–38 says,  And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.  For…

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3 Dangers of (Merely) Messy Christianity

3 Dangers of (Merely) Messy Christianity by Jonathan J. Routley  for The Gospel Coalition There’s a recent trend in American Christianity to speak of spiritual life as messy. We’re sinful, broken people, this view argues, and even in our redeemed and reconciled condition we make mistakes that affect our and others’ lives. The messiness is pervasive, constant, and unrelenting. There’s no hope for the eradication of sin this side of Christ’s return, so the best we can do is embrace the mess and encourage one another to keep wading through…

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Quick Shot Responses to “All God expects of us is sincerity” (Podcast)

  Quick Shot Responses to “All God expects of us is sincerity” Podcast by J Warner Wallace for Cold Case Christianity In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner offers a number of brief, rhetorically powerful responses to the objection: “All God expects of us is sincerity.” Isn’t our effort enough to please God? These Quick Shot responses are designed to help you remove intellectual obstacles when talking about God with your friends and family members. They are also available on the Cold-Case Christianity Phone App so you can access them…

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