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Last time we left the hanging question, "Why does God delay bringing his kingdom into fullness now?" We spoke of how Jesus ushered in God's kingdom in part five. We said that it is an "already-not yet" reality in which the blessings of God's kingdom are already...

Part 4 of our series left us asking, "Would God be faithful to his promise to gather and renew Israel? Would the promised Messiah finally fulfill God's mission that Israel failed to live out? How does God's Story continue? In the time between the Old and New...

In part 3 of our series, we learned that God had granted Israel an earthly king whose role in leading the people would help nourish Israel's missional identity and function as a blessing to all nations. God had promised this earthly king, King David, that another King...

Last time we learned that God gave Israel his law so that Israel could learn to walk in God's ways for God's glory in the sight of the nations around them—this was Israel's missional calling. The law was the means for Israel to live in a way that challenged the...

In part one of our short series, we saw how God had called Israel to be his missional people, living in the sight of the nations as a priestly kingdom and holy nation. Israel was to be a community on display—a missional community that would live in God's ways for...

The Bible tells the true story of God’s mission to rescue and restore the whole world. The missio Dei (Latin for “mission of God” or “sending of God”) involves God setting out on a long journey to restore his good creation from the ravages of humanity’s sin....

Today's blog post concludes our series on the Lord's Prayer. We've been saying that the Lord's Prayer is a prayer Jesus gave his disciples that reflected his own heart and priorities. As we learn to breathe in this prayer and live it out daily, our hearts become...

In the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 (and Luke 11), we see Jesus giving his disciples words to pray that, in reality, is introducing them to a whole new way of living. Jesus says this: 9 "This, then, is how you should pray: "'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,...

Last week we began to look at the petition in the Lord's Prayer found in Matthew 6:12, which says: "And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors." We briefly looked at the first section of that verse and considered what it means that forgiven people...

We've been looking at the Lord's Prayer, a prayer Jesus has given the family of God. Today we look at the petition in Matthew 6:12: "Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors." Everyone, everywhere, cannot escape the brutal honesty of this petition....