Pursuing God's Heart

Kingdom & Church

In the Presence of a Holy God: Grace and Love

Third in a 3-part series on God’s holiness, justice, and love.  About a 6-minute read. ((In that this is posted for an international audience, rather than provide specific examples limited to only a few contexts, cultures, or countries, it will focus on biblical truth and principles that are applicable to all contexts.) If ever society

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Fighting the Slide Into Integrity Compromised: Reflecting on a Leader’s Fall and Legacy

A Current Kingdom Comment.   About an 8 minute read. Sadly, some who are already slipping down the integrity slide won’t read this post. If avoiding facing the possibility of integrity compromised describes us, the slide is already dangerously close to a fall. Thank God, others are ready to face integrity challenges. Still yet others already

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Passion, Politics, and Perspective

A Current Kingdom Comment About 5 minute reading time Every day the news seems to bring increased anxiety, stronger feelings, more passionate feelings. In the US, the news is about political polarization, racial strife, and COVID 19. The church is trying to figure out how to navigate COVID protocols. Jesus-followers, Left and Right, are taking

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A house divided? Left and Right Christians in a post-Christian world

A current Kingdom comment (estimated reading time: 6 minutes) In 1858, at a different time of deep division in our country (United States), Abraham Lincoln echoed the words of Jesus (Mark 3:25), when he declared, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” Not

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