Author: Timothy Tennent

This is what we were made for – God’s presence with us, and us with him.

The church of Jesus Christ is the most ethnically, socially, and linguistically diverse movement in the history of the world.

Jesus is the victor who, after his suffering and humiliation, has been crowned with glory and honor.

In the end, our faith is not based on what we see or experience, but on God himself.

One of the defining identity markers for Christians is that we are resurrection people. This means that we understand that God always has the last word.

This psalm celebrates the power and grandeur of the voice of the Lord.

Psalm 7 portrays God as the great warrior who stands by our side in the battle against evil in which we are engaged.

Although David was battling enemies here on earth, the psalm portrays the whole earth rocking and quivering under the power of God as he thunders forth with his presence and power.

In the Bible, death is nothing more than sin made visible. Thus, God’s victory over sin must, ultimately, be a visible victory over death.

It is fitting that at the very moment Jesus was, quite literally, shedding his blood for us, he addressed God as Father, thereby modeling for us the new and living way that was being opened to all of us through the gospel.

Biblically speaking, we are all refugees in the sense that we all should have a sense of displacement, a longing for the only true place where we are at home: the presence of God.