Posts with the tag “pastor-dan”

The already and the not yet of the Kingdom of God is why we don’t have to fear when an evil government is ruling, when godless kings persecute the church, when we battle with personal struggles, or wh...  Read More

There is no need to add any created thing to the work of the one who is supreme over all creation. ...  Read More

Joy was a choice for Paul, and it is a choice for us. ...  Read More

If the church wasn’t about a man like Paul, then it most certainly isn’t about a man like me. The church was always about and will always be about its true Senior Pastor. King Jesus is the Head of His...  Read More

Bad theology infects the church. When bad theology infects the church it usually happens in small doses. Bad theology most certainly leads to sinful living in every aspect of the Christian life. The t...  Read More

Jesus is our justification, our sanctification, and our glorification. In this way, Jesus is the start of our journey, the journey itself, and the journey’s destination. So, yes. Life is a journey, bu...  Read More

We learn from Acts that the church has always faced great opposition and danger. And yet, the gates of hell have never and will never prevail against the church so long as the church remains true to t...  Read More

Something similar has happened to American Christianity, also called “evangelicalism” over the past 100 years, or more (depending on who you talk to). Some may get the feeling from the church that Jes...  Read More

The American church is fractured in its fealty to Jesus. We have choices to make. Will we follow Jesus even if that leads us into a place of powerlessness on this earth, or will we use worldly means, ...  Read More

If we are seeking peace on this earth because of the foundational peace we have in Christ, we will look to stop oppression and seek justice in our culture. We will fight to have laws changed and to el...  Read More

Jesus is a compassionate missionary and he calls his people to follow him on the path of compassion. Compassion means that we love those who hate us....  Read More

God is not promising to heal you of the plague if you would repent, for I can assure you, that is not true. What God has promised in the day of the Lord, what God is giving us through the indwelling o...  Read More

God desperately loves His people, even the broken ones. Oh yes, we are all the broken ones. ...  Read More

God allowed these horrible things to happen in order to punish the sins of His people. In Lamentations, sin is serious, and rebellion is not tolerated. Sin has debilitating and awful consequences. ...  Read More

When we pile on the injustices in our world, the lack of true leadership in important places, bickering and fighting on 24-hour news cycles, and the politicization of the most mundane tasks, it almost...  Read More

The Gospel story doesn’t stop when a person comes to faith in Jesus. Yes, our sins are forgiven. Yes, we have secured an inheritance of eternal life. But the story continues. Jesus is making all thing...  Read More

Broken intimacy is one of the hardest places to return from. But it is possible. The reason I know it is possible to return from broken intimacy is because the Gospel has restored an eternally broken ...  Read More

Our purpose is not found in our biggest moments or our worst failures....  Read More

Through the Gospel, we have a proper view of all of the attributes of God, a proper view of the depth of our depravity, a proper view of the depth of God’s grace, and a proper view of how grace leads ...  Read More

Those were the nights when Jesus sang for her in the day. But when the night came, my wife continued to sing the words her mommy sang to her. ...  Read More

I don’t think that our memories will be wiped clean in heaven. I think that we will remember every tear and every moment of terror in grief. But we will remember it in the context of the glory of Chri...  Read More

We aren’t good enough. We sin too much. We aren’t worth the glory of God. Of course, all of this would be true were it not for Jesus....  Read More

We all have our ideas of what our own kingdom should look like. We really start building this kingdom when we strike out on our own. Some of us have achieved these kingdoms only to realize we still ha...  Read More

Here is some even greater news. If you have come to faith in Jesus, you are part of that family tree in the Scriptures. Every name that is listed in those family trees is the name of a normal everyday...  Read More

The reason we get so angry when we see our sinful patterns in others is probably multi-faceted. But I do know that one of the reasons we get angry is because we forget about the grace that was extende...  Read More

Kings fail. Pastors fail. Bosses fail. Parents fail. Teachers fail. Humans fail. But Jesus never did and he never will. ...  Read More

God has not left us destitute in our sinful condition. He has provided a Redeemer who offered himself, bought us with a price and calls us into his family....  Read More

We often don’t think of Jesus as a warrior king. But the Bible paints a different picture... he is not coming back in the same way that he came the first time....  Read More

We keep scrolling our feeds looking for answers. Or we try to hide our heads in the proverbial sand until everything passes over. But this is not what God wants from us. Jesus, the Lawgiver says, “Lov...  Read More

We don’t need more of the death scroll. We don’t need more talking heads. We don’t need more political talking points. We need more of Christ. He is our water in the desert. Our souls and our hearts a...  Read More

Jesus who was without sin became sin for us so that we could become the righteousness of God. Our sin for his righteousness. Has there ever been a more uneven exchange in all of history? Has there eve...  Read More

Join us for Day 2 of "All Roads Lead To Jesus" as we look at how Jesus is found in every book of the Bible. Jesus is the story. ...  Read More

My grieving and broken heart would find hope in the days of grief that lay ahead of me once I left that flash of brilliance in the sky. My hope would be found when I realized that Jesus, the Creator a...  Read More