This post is an excerpt from a book on John the Baptist being published in 2020. The message of Malachi summarized John’s life and message: The priesthood had become compromised and politicized. Priests were to be God’s messengers, but the priesthood had failed and therefore not instructed the people in
Note this in an excerpt from Mercy Before Judgment. Before we examine God’s interactions with His intercessors, we need to identify a biblical pattern we will see in these interactions. The pattern we see in Scripture is basically this: Before God released His judgments, He would come to an intercessor
This post is an excerpt from a book on John the Baptist being published in 2020. We have a lot of confusion in the area of calling vs. assignment. We often use the word “calling” to refer to our ministry assignments or our vocation, but these are temporary tasks God has assigned to us.
Note: this is an excerpt from the book It Must Be Finished. In any good story, the great climax comes near the end. The story of redemption is the same.We need to recover a sense of anticipation, expectation, and awe at the way the story of redemption ends because this the
When Jesus looked across all the mighty men of history who had been born up to that point, He singled out one man as the greatest. That man was John the Baptist. Why did Jesus make this staggering assessment?