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God’s passion for justice and mercy pushes us out into a world of poverty, slavery and violence to care with God’s heart for people in hopeless darkness.

Jesus calls Matthew, a Tax Collectors, inviting us into the gospel lives that are outward facing and missional.

Everyone worships something and our hearts are “idol factories.” We are constantly turning to other gods–driven by our wants and desires–to give us what only God can. Identifying, unseating and replacing our hearts idols requires admitting our need and constantly turning to Jesus as our true Savior and God.

Is there an Ideal and Perfect Church? Maybe the NT church of Acts 2:42-47? No. But that doesn’t mean a church can’t be faithful to the gospel, culturally fitting and fruitful. How did Christ Church Vienna cultivates it’s Vision to be a gospel driven, externally focused, extended family, Anglican mission for Vienna, VA. And how […]

In view of God’s mercies–all that He has done for us in Jesus Christ–how are we to live? Paul says the response to God’s mercy is to offer ourselves fully to God in worship and to offer ourselves fully to one another in love and service.

Is God the Sovereign Lord of the universe, ordering all things according to his purposes and will? Or are we responsible agents, held to account by God the judge for all we do? Paul answers Yes. Both are true. Our understanding the bigness of God and his sovereignty is integral to living out the faith […]

Everyone struggles with doubt and sin at various times. We experience the war within: the conflict between the good we want to do and the evil we do. Paul identifies with our struggle when he cries, “Who will rescue me?” But he concludes with–God has! Through Christ Jesus we can have hope as we humbly […]

The gospel is not just the good news of God saving us, it is good news which affects all of life. In Romans 5, Paul returns to the gospel message and sharing how believers can rejoice (boast) and put their hope in the gospel and so transform their approach to all of life. The implications […]

All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory–we are under his just judgment and cannot save ourselves. But God the just and justifier of those whom he loves saves us, taking the judgment for us in his son Jesus Christ. God offers this to all humanity by his grace, as a gift to be […]