the first calling

On 22 June, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Before the call to be a Christian, or even the call to be Jewish, there was a call to be human:

Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it…

It’s a calling to cultivate. A blessing from God to humanity in the first part of the book of Genesis. It’s a [...]

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prayer for the city

On 25 May, 2011 · 1 Comment

You can join us from noon to 1p (EST) today, and every Wednesday, as we partner with hundreds and hundreds of New Yorkers from dozens of churches and pray for the Kingdom of God to be in New York as it is in heaven.

Our prayer is that the Church would come alive.

Not [...]

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more than peace

On 24 May, 2011 · Leave a Comment

For all of the Hebrew Scriptures the central theme is peace.

It’s the word shalom. An all-encompasing peace that represents things being exactly as God would will them to be: man at peace with God, at peace with himself, with others and with this world.

Peace is what the prophets were talking about, what the [...]

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