By His grace, what the radical life of Christ should look in an American context!

Mark 2:10 – The most important thing, the whole goal and emphasis of the kingdom, is found not in power to heal from sickness, or ailment, but in the authority to forgive the sins of mankind.

1 Corinthians 4:20 – God’s kingdom is about His power to cleanse us from our sins. His power over the darkness of this world. His power to bring about His kingdom and impose His will on this world.

1 Corinthian 5:10 – We seem to follow the opposite rule in modern churches. We acquit those who call themselves by the name of Christ and yet live forthrightly in sinful behaviors. We even go as far as to find means to excuse their behaviors rather than hold them to account.

Yet, we stand in judgment against those who are lost for living in sin when what they need most from us is a semblance of the same mercy we are so willing to give to those who name the name of Christ.

Psalm 76:8 – God is the only one who can still the entire earth at once. Here He stills the earth with the majesty of His judgment.

Psalm 77:13 – As much as it may seem to us from our perspective that God is absent or that He simply doesn’t care what we need is a dose of His perspective. Everything that God does, He does because He is holy. His holiness is the common denominator of our entire existence and for Christ’s life, suffering, death, and resurrection.

Joshua 10:14 – We serve a God who is able to make the heavens stand still in their place. How courageous should we be when we have chosen to be in His army and fight in the battles He is waging? Let us go and make disciples of the nations!

Joshua 11:23 – Joshua took the entire land as God had commanded Him through Moses. Jesus took the entire world as God had commanded Him through the Law.

Joshua 12:24 – When Christ returns in victory He will win agaisnt all the kings of this earth just like Joshua defeated all the kings of the land.

Joshua 13:33 – Joshua dispersed the land to the tribes as was commanded by God. The Levites received no land inheritance for God is their inheritance. We Christians are the new Levites, God is our inheritance.

Joshua 14:12 – Out of all the places in the land that Caleb could choose for his inheritance, he chose Hebron which was occupied by giants (the Anakim) and was filled with foritified cities. It may very well have been that Caleb saw this area as a spy 45 years earlier and has desired the area ever since.

May our faith be as such that the giants and fortified territories of this world do not frighten us away from living by our faith.