What is the Kingdom of God? When Jesus says that the good news of the Gospel is the Kingdom’s availability to us, what does He mean? In our culture of individualized Christianity, we often neglect this idea of a Kingdom. In our exchange for a personal, one-on-one relationship, we lose sight of th...

Redemption begins small. In God’s Old Testament works, He begins with one person: Abraham—or Abram, as we first meet him. But though Abraham is just one man, the Lord promises to make him into a great nation and to bless him. It will be through him that the Lord’s kingdom will come. Abraham’s mis...

While Abraham launched the Kingdom of God, breaking free from slavery under Egypt defines His descendants as a people group and Kingdom of their own: God’s Kingdom. Bound together by the Shema—to hear, listen, and love the Lord—the Israelites will become an alternative Kingdom, built around a lov...

It’s easy for a kingdom to quickly get off track, especially if the leadership takes advantage of its authority. For God’s chosen Kingdom, a people meant to be distinct and counter-cultural, the king will be required to not only rule but also intercede between God and His people, keep them in rig...

When the sin and wickedness of the Israelites send them into exile, the world of God’s chosen people is turned upside down. Yet even in the brutality of destruction, death, and displacement, the Lord has not abandoned His people. Through the prophets, God brings the promise of hope and restoratio...

After exile, after destruction, after hundreds of years of silence and finally, freedom, the King prophesied for centuries has finally come. And that King is Jesus. This movement to further the Kingdom of God can only be orchestrated by one Person, God himself, turned flesh. It will be through Je...

As Jesus discusses the Kingdom of God with the people of Israel, He engages with them through parables. Storytelling was Jesus’ way of helping His followers to imagine what the kingdom looks like in a personal and poignant way.

Over and over again in Scripture, we see that sin is the ultimate barrier to entry for life and, therefore, into the Kingdom of God. Jesus takes for himself our sin and shame as He gives His life on the cross, and the barrier between humanity and the Kingdom they were destined for is torn down. T...

As Jesus is brought back to Heaven, He leaves His disciples with a divine Helper: the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit that ordains and empowers believers to continue fulfillment of God’s Old Testament promises! And, it is this movement that we, current day believers, still find ourselves a part of....

While Paul doesn’t speak as overtly about the Kingdom of God as we might expect him to, his ministry is still kingdom-centric. However, given that most of his followers would have been Gentiles and less familiar with the traditional kingdom language, Paul focuses on the Holy Spirit and a complete...

The Kingdom of God is real and powerful and here with us, only, it’s not yet fully realized. Through Christ’s death and resurrection, the Kingdom was put into motion. But now, much like the Israelites waiting for their Messiah, we find ourselves waiting, too. Though we can experience the Holy Spi...

God chose to create a Kingdom for His people and His church is an outpouring of that. We are meant to go into the world embodying His mission and His love, and to bring others into the Kingdom family, too. This is a huge calling! But imagine a world where all might know and live into the love tha...