God has given us new names; no longer does Jesus call us his servants, now he calls us friends
God reveals a name for himself that still speaks to us today.
It took a face-to-face encounter with God for Jacob to recognize the significance of his name; what do our encounters with God tell us about who we are?
As part of God's covenant promise, God gave Abram a new name: Abraham; father of many nations. Through Jesus God reaches down and enfolds you as part of his own covenant family.
When God changes somebody’s name, he changes their identity as well; when Simon becomes Peter, the door into God’s eternal family is forever opened.
What do our thoughts and opinions about current events reveal about the way we see and use power? The story of Gideon gives insight from long ago that is still helpful for us today.
Could it be that this moment of exile for all of us is a time to correct our direction and correct our purpose to once again align with the direction and purpose of God’s covenant plan of redemption—a plan of redemption launched into this world through Christ and handed off to his disciples and down to us in the church still today?
when something causes all the right things in my life to bend in the wrong direction, my response should be to pause and consider all the wrong things in the world that I should be bending back in the right direction
As people loved enough by God to receive the Holy Spirit, we are enabled by God to love one another as he loves us
Christian hope is more than a band aid to get us to an eternal afterlife, it is a hope that shows up in our lives with purpose and direction for who we are and what we do