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God is a Phaser—or, God often works in stages
The eight-century BC prophets such as Isaiah and Amos declared, “The day of the LORD is at hand!”…
Preaching God’s kingdom—Mark 1:14-15 (17 min)
Jesus returns to Galilee, preaching the good news that the time of waiting was up: God’s promised reign…
The Future is Now: Prophetic Empowerment in the Last Days—Acts 2:17-18
When God pours out the Spirit in Acts 2, hearers recognize some of the languages in which Jesus’s…
What is the gospel of the kingdom?
The good news of God’s reign: we have a foretaste already of the not yet, although the fullness remains future…
The down payment—2 Corinthians 1:22; 5:5; Ephesians 1:13-14
Did you know that we have already begun to taste the future world? We are visitors in this…