Scripturally speaking, music is warfare. Music is a uniquely effective teaching device. Music is the wave worship rides on in the throne room. Most significantly, it is a strategic means of fellowshipping with the One who inhabits eternity. If that doesn’t blow your mind, I don’t know what will. Yet in light of all these things, we find that music is one of His methods of maturing us.
Read MoreThe hope of the prophets of old and the redemptive work that was guaranteed at the cross will be fulfilled. The Lord is burning with desire for the day He gets to come back, and so should we. It is only when we come into alignment with the Lord's heart for the restoration of all things that our participation will be "of the Father's business.”
Read MoreJohn’s decisions and commitments have long provoked us, and we believe the Body at large has an incredible opportunity in this era to leverage the internet and all our modern tech toys in the same way Martin Luther leveraged Gutenberg’s printing press to produce excellent messaging content and distribute it as widely as possible as efficiently as possible.
Read MoreRead this exclusive excerpt of Stephanie Quick’s “Ruins of the Renaissance: Crisis, Clarity, and Apostolic Artistry,” a manifesto for artists and creatives who bear the Image, Name, and Message of Jesus.
Read MoreOne of the many paradoxes of following Jesus is that we gain access to eternal life, yet we are also subject to trials and tribulations as He conforms us into His image. Why does Jesus do this to His people? How do we walk this road, yet keep our hearts tender and unoffended? “Blessed is the one who is not offended by Me.”
Read MoreThe pharmaceutical industry is a temporary institution. We only need healthcare for as long as we are stuck with fallible frames, and those days are numbered. This night of sickness, decay, and death in the Exile will soon be over. The greater Joshua will come, and resurrect His beloved ones. We will work with Him to restore the world to Eden again, but this time with more than just one man and just one woman. Jesus has an inheritance to fill the nations, the New Jerusalem, and the dinner table at the Wedding Feast. In the meantime, we get to help Him crowd it out as much as possible.
Read MoreAs we reflect on the last twenty years, and remember the 2,977 lives lost on American soil the day we learned even our skies are not altogether safe, and the some-6,800+ U.S. soldiers (in addition to the thousands of coalition partners, allies, and Peshmerga, etc) who’ve died in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war against ISIS ever since, let us do so with open hands. The Son of Man is truly coming on the clouds in power and glory, and He will end every war. He will rebuild and restore, and usher in the day tears cease to fall and bodies cease to die. He is our only surety. He is the joy set before us; let us not only look for and wait for Him—let us partner with Him in all He is doing to get us there.
Read MoreHinges of history are remembered with nostalgia, but they usually inflict whiplash when they’re happening. If you bear the Image & Name of the LORD, you are “obliged” to bear the Message of the LORD—and I believe the Creator of all has “appointed by name” Artists & Creatives to bear beautiful witness to the “blessed hope” that is the return and reign of the Man Christ Jesus, the Better Beautiful.
Read MoreWhat will the just Judge do with the worst of Jacob? What if all these horrible accusations against the people and nation of Israel were true? How would that bear upon the promises and provisions of the Everlasting Covenant? Stephanie Quick explores the prophetic texts to ask what God will do with Israel, even if she is indeed an apartheid state.
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