Tree Of Life

The Preacher seeks to cope with the vanity of life through wisdom. Wisdom teaches us to redeem life from the curse.

Jesus died to lead exiles back to Eden in a New Exodus. We live in this story by dying in ours.

Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper for believers as an expression of their restoration with God. Those feast in the supper enter into community centered on Jesus.

Without an experiential knowledge of the fullness of Christ, the jaws of feigned intellectualism will devour us.

The restoring, dwelling place of God has been relocated from the Temple building to Jesus. We are called to be His priesthood.

Those who reject God's mission of restoration for the nations reject Jesus.

Envy for sin can be made happy in God by receiving the matchless goodness of God's grace as revealed in God's Temple.

Jesus came to live and complete our story so that we can surrender our reputation for the sake of restoration.

Through His sufferings, Jesus fulfills Israel's commission to bring restoration to the nations. He calls us to be servants to the nations even in the face of suffering.

The unfailing, steadfast love of God enables us to praise His purposes in difficult times.

Wile our story ends in death, God’s story brings restoration through the resurrecting-power of His Spirit.

An interview with Michelle McCulloch regarding her mission to Uganda and how not to waste your life.

Overview of the adult study's weekly five chapters, concluding with a topical look at depression (also separately posted).

We fight feelings of depression by fighting for hope in God.

Unbelief in God's story borrows idolatry from culture's story.

Seek wisdom, for it functions within the blessed state of restoration with God.

Rather than seeking status among the nations, we must seek restoration among the nations through Jesus.

Because Jesus descended from David, we have an eternal restoration in Him.

Unconfessed sin suffocates our Joy in Christ.

God restores us in Christ to cultivate a culture that restores the nations to Himself.