Heaven. What pictures pop into your mind when you read the word, heaven? Angels, pearly gates, throne room, streets of gold, joyful reunions? And you’d have listed many of the Bible’s descriptions of heaven.1 How about ‘clouds and sky’? We may hesitate and question the location of heaven – is it really ‘up’? I mean,ContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Eternity”
Tag Archives: Hidden Agendas
Hidden Agendas: Community
Certainty.Control.Individualism.Independence.Polarity.Popularity. These words generally capture the essence of our current American culture. They work together to give definition for what Americans desire, value, and live out most. Curiosity.Surrender.Unity.Dependence.Like-mindedness.Love. These words characterize God’s Kingdom. They work together to describe a community that pursues the best for the whole and for their King. What’s wild to meContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Community”
Hidden Agendas: Spirit
In this series we’ve been pulling the curtain back to see our inner selves more clearly, specifically to see the motives that move us through life. Parallel to such revelations, we’ve been looking more closely at what it is to live for God’s Kingdom – those agendas that we want to trade-up for. Obtaining clarityContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Spirit”
Hidden Agendas: Kingdom
We opened this series clarifying Jesus’ agenda – that of ushering in the Kingdom of God. And we recall that His two-part kingdom arrival puts us in the overlap: We live between Christ’s cross and Christ’s return with the call to live for His kingdom now, to be His hands and feet in the worldContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Kingdom”
Hidden Agendas: Enemy
I sat at the edge of our couch, wide eyes glued to the TV, and waited for the hidden attackers to leap out at any moment. I knew they were there. I just couldn’t see them. And, isn’t that just like our enemy? Lurking unseen in the shadows. Tracking us like prey. Having us inContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Enemy”
Hidden Agendas: God
I wanted to attend my first New Room Conference so much that when my friend couldn’t go at the last minute, I still went. Alone. With great anticipation, I packed and drove myself to the airport. Without hesitation, I picked up my rental car and navigated Nashville – just me and the GPS. But somethingContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: God”
Hidden Agendas: Jesus
Jesus silently slips under the water, rising up not ‘clean from sin’ but anointed for ministry. He enters the river a relative unknown. He exits a man-god on a mission. He steps onto the dust of His homeland, named by God and filled by the Spirit, ready to fulfill the agenda He’s been given: toContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Jesus”