Have you ever heard that you need to repent to be saved or that if you don't repent God won't forgive you? I have many times. I was taught that repenting was asking God to pardon me for my actions. After that I needed to straighten up because God wasn't in the business of forgiving …
The key ingredient to living life in the freedom of the New Covenant between our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ, is the pure message of Grace. Grace is always hyper and has nothing to do with the Law of Moses. "We do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the …
The Gospel is the too good to be true news of Jesus. It defies logic and sets us free. If your struggling with drugs, alcohol, depression, anxiety, or PTSD the answer is the Gospel. If your struggling with your relationships the answer is the Gospel. If your struggling with eating disorders or porn addiction the …
Many people believe that God is a God of war or wrath, God himself says "He is love and light." The idea is often taught that God's wrath is going to crash down on all sinners. Nothing is further from the the truth and this teaching is a complete contradiction of the New Covenant we …
"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he."(Proverbs 24:7) This verse was one of the first verses that spoke to Kurt and I when we started trusting in the Lord. Years later as I reflect on this verse I am even more moved by it. How often do we find ourselves making decisions …
Every year we celebrate the birth of Jesus, his death and the his resurrection, but do we really know the significance of it all? Before Jesus, the Jew's sacrificed lambs each year for reconciliation to God for all the Mosaic laws thy had broken. John the Baptist was dunking people in the Jordan River and …
Continue reading If Jesus took away the sin of the world. Why is there still sin?
The basis of every blog that we have written has been building on the reality that Love is what it's all about. "Not our Love for Him but His Love for us."(1 John 4:10) When the belief that God's love for us isn't based or restricted by our love for Him the freedom Jesus purchased for …
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In the Christian community fasting is a staple. Many believe it is the cause and the way prayers are answered. Yet, fasting is never mentioned more than three times in any of the translations of the New Testament. But when we compare this to the theme of the New Testament Epistles we realize love and …
Love is the essence of God and God never fails. "God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love-not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a …
When John the Baptist was baptizing Israelite's in the Jordan River and saw Jesus coming toward him, “Behold the Lamb of God; this is the one who will lift the sin of the cosmos like an anchor from the sea floor, for humanity to sail free!” (John 1:29) This is the One who was wrapped in …
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Expanding the Eye of the Storm 