Article archive :: Jesus Rant

Consuming Fire part 1

12/13/2019 20:01

There are a lot of different pictures of God in the Bible. Probably because He is so multi-faceted. Because LOVE is so mulit-faceted. It (HE) comes in so many shapes, and sizes, and colors. I was sitting in a parking lot in my truck today with my kid. And he laid his head on my shoulder. I said,...

Now What? part 5

12/12/2019 20:17

The book of Hebrews speaks quite a bit about the high priest. About how Jesus is the fulfillment of that roll. He is our true High Priest. Now, this isn't the time or the place to get into all of the duties and activities of the high priest. I just want to highlight that in the Old Covenant he...

Now What? part 4

12/11/2019 20:08

Another one of my favorite Bible verses, one that I call the OTHER 3:16 (because John 3:16 is so popular, but this is the other one), "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren" (1 John 3:16). Receiving and...

Now What? part 3

12/10/2019 16:16

Let's try to look at this in a different way. We're talking about what to do with our lives, kind of, right? Talking about what has happened and what CAN happen because of what has happened. And, really, that's the cross. The cross is the biggest thing that has ever happened. The God who is love...

Now What? part 2

12/09/2019 20:13

It's a question that I used to ask myself a lot. Because I've never been afraid to try to do things. A lot of the time it doesn't work out the way I think it will (or the way I think it should), but I comfort myself by being able to say, "At least I tried." And then I usually say, "Ok... now what?"...

Now What? part 1

12/08/2019 20:00

We just finished a Rant series about how it is finished. And we ended it with the revelation that BECAUSE it is finished we are equipped and empowered to run the race that is set before us. We have been filled with the love of God. That's a done deal. And now we can fill ourselves to overflowing...

Finished part 5

12/07/2019 20:27

This might seem like a little bit of a strange way to end this Rant series, but I want to talk about the last part of Hebrews 12:1, "Where seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin with doth so easily beset us, and let us run...

Finished part 4

12/06/2019 20:02

On the cross Jesus cried out, "It is finished," right before giving up the ghost. Right before making the greatest sacrifice He could make. Right before giving the greatest expression of love that a man can give. But even though it's only three words... it's so big. We've already looked at a couple...

Finished part 3

12/05/2019 20:03

I can't stress how important it is that we understand possibly the three most important words Jesus ever spoke: It is finished. Because, well, let me quote my Scripture for today. "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of...

Finished part 2

12/04/2019 20:24

It is finished. Perhaps the most powerful phrase ever uttered. The last words spoken before Jesus gave up the ghost. His dying declaration, if I can say it that way. And to me it goes right along with--hand in hand with--the other incredibly powerful thing He said on the cross. "Then said Jesus,...

Article archive