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This is an excerpt from the introduction of Hitchhiking with Prophets: A Ride Through the Salvation Story of the Old Testament written by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2024). Now available for preorder.
The world we inhabit is wrong in so many ways, and a holistic approach to this “wrongness” traces its cause both to sin itself and to the effects of sin.
The Advents of Christ (past, present, and future) elicit faith in the word of Christ, confirmed by his presence.
Blessed are we, for we are filled by the cornucopia of Christ’s righteousness.
This is an edited excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
Pentecost reminds us of not only what happened on that day described in Acts 2 but what is happening every day: the Spirit of God working in and through God’s people, according to his word.
God made us to live together, to live in harmony with each other, to serve and sacrifice for the health and well-being of each other. When we hurt one part, we injure the whole body. And, as the philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, wrote, “What injures the hive, injures the bee."
Jesus is our food and drink, our home and property, our all in all.
We thus come together to eat and drink, exchange gifts, serve one another, and even while celebrating, we proclaim the Gospel of Christ to one another.
I looked up at the cross and saw what God had become to bring me home. He had become what I was.
The only thing Hobbits love more than a good meal, is good company with whom they can share it.
The manna God provides is never tasty enough. God never lives up to your expectations. So silently or audibly you wish for an easier way.