Altar of Peace | The Altar Week 6
“So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it, ‘The Lord is Peace’ and to this day it stands…” The altar is a point of departure where we swear allegiance to one God and part ways with another.
Divine Touch | The Altar Week 5
“See! This has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” We have lost touch with the idea of atonement and settled for forgiveness instead, but you don’t need an altar for forgiveness.
The Intercessor | The Altar Week 4
“David built an altar to the Lord there… (and) the Lord answered prayer on behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.’” When we intercede at an altar, things become possible that were not possible before.
A Marriage Made in Heaven | Follow the Lamb Week 5
“Let us rejoice and be glad, for the wedding of the Lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready.” The single most compelling metaphor for salvation in the Bible is not a trial with God on the bench and humanity in the dock. It’s a wedding with Christ at the altar, awaiting the arrival of his bride, the Church. When we think of salvation in these terms, it changes almost everything about the way we live each day.
My People | Restoring the Future Week 5
Who are the people God will use to rebuild the city?
A Re-Echanted Altar | Restoring the Future Week 3
Soon or later, everything about us – our families, our work, and especially our worship – takes the shape of an altar hidden in the routines of our lives.
The Division Bell | Restoring the Future Week 2
The story of Ezra-Nehemiah: A nation once devastated by the exile is given permission from an unlikely source to rebuild. But sometimes the hardest work is that which is done in the people themselves before the building begins.