Dwayne's preaching on Mark 10:17-31 and what it means to encounter self-assured. The good news is salvation belongs to God and He can save anyone. When He does, He not only grants you salvation but a new family, along with sufferings, that will be with you from...
What does it mean to encounter outsiders? A desperate mom approaches Jesus to free her daughter from the demonic. He is in Gentile territory. She is a Canaanite, a Syrophoenician, a Gentile. She is outside the covenant and the covenant people. The disciples want Jesus to send her away... they...
What does it means to encounter rejection? She came to the well at noon. She was ostracized. Everyone in town gossiped about her. She was a Samaritan and one of the most unlikely converts, yet salvation is about God extending His grace to us. Jesus revealed to her that He...
What does it means to encounter religion? Nicodemus was a religious leader of his day who would have been faithful in his Bible reading, prayer and fasting disciplines (and in all aspects of the law). He would have had large portions of Scripture memorized, yet he didn’t have a...
God is committed to his people, and It’s satisfying when God’s people respond. But God’s people continue to fail, but hope is coming.
To live well in exile, draw a line, hold a big picture of God, and believe that history is headed somewhere.
