Deborah and Barak

I rise before dawn and cry for Your help. I have put my hope in Your Word.

Shibboleth

The men of Gilead asked the Ephraimites to say Shibboleth. If they said, “Sibboleth,” they seized them and killed them. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.

Psalm 139

God always has a man, He always has a woman, and He always has a house.

The Judges

Orchestrated, designed and choreographed by God.

Gideon's Victory

The gift of limitation, the gift of worship and the gift of team.

Jephthah

The third generation is notorious for squandering their inheritance.

Gideon

Big trouble. Big question. Big Decision. Big God.

Samson

A flawed, distracted, defiant, dishonest,  disrespectful,  overbearing, arrogant, obnoxious and relationally challenged man of faith.

The 3rd Generation.

That day the Lord gave Israel the victory. Moab was made subject to Israel and the land had peace for eighty years.

Practise these things.

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Living with Jesus at the centre.

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The God who dwelt in the burning bush.

May the Lord bless you with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below; with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield; with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills; with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush.

Listen, my beloved.

Listen, my beloved. The winter is past, the rains are over and gone, flowers appear on the earth and the season of singing has come!

Follow Me...

Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

How beautiful you are!

How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist's hands.

I love you like...

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth — for your love is more delightful than wine. I liken you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariot horses.

Hair, eyes, lips

His hair is wavy and black as a raven. His eyes are like doves by the water streams. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.

Song of Songs

Listen, my beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”

Choose or Refuse

Every day we choose and refuse. We either choose integrity, credibility, obedience, faith, or we refuse integrity, credibility, obedience, faith. Moses chose to be counted with the people of God and refuse the worldliness of the royal palace - and the result was that he ended up in the back end of a desert. And again, God asks us to choose and refuse!

Revelation

Both the Kingdom of God and the city of Babylon are filled with sounds familiar to the life - or lack their of - found in their midst. What sounds fill your life?

In honour of John Donaldson

Jesus - bread of life, good shepherd, healer, redeemer, Lord and saviour. There's so much we can discover about Jesus through the book of John.

Friend, Worker, Sister, Soldier

To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker, Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your home - grace and peace to you.

Supernatural or Superficial

Churches often fall into two clear categories, namely, those who are supernatural and those who are superficial. We as a church need the Holy Spirit to keep the kingdom alive in us and all we do.

Grace and Mercy

Let us hold firmly to our faith, and let us approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and grace to help us in our time of need.

Faith and Patience

We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end - to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Enter this rest.

All too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, and so no fruit is produced.

Who do you say that I am?

On the way, Jesus turned to his disciples and asked them, "What about you? Who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Messiah."

Disciples not decisions

As he spoke about righteousness and self-control and the day of judgment, Felix became frightened. “Go away for now,” he replied. “When it is more convenient, I’ll call for you again.”

Suffering.

Paul considers the pain and persecution he endured at the hands of opposition as a pulpit that God uses to declare and bring about His kingdom.

The Bible.

The bible. It gripped a king's heart and his obedience changed a nation. A verse gripped a simple preacher's heart and his obedience brought about the reformation!

Partnering with God

We are saved completely apart from what we have done. Now, however, God calls us to partner with us as we are shaped more into the likeness of Jesus and as more of His kingdom comes in our lives.

Father

Three dads (Mordecai, the husband in Proverbs 31, and Joseph) thunder the wonder of being a father and show the heart of our Heavenly Father!

Azazel

We have all made decisions in our lives that we wish we never had. What do we do to appease these shameful, debilitating regrets? Azazel!

Follow me

What does it mean to put your faith in a Rabbie named Jesus? What would posses grown men to leave everything they know to follow Jesus and be covered in His dust?!  Matthew 4

The grace of God

The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, training us to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives.  Titus 2

An attractive gospel.

So that, in every way, you will make the teaching of God our Saviour attractive.  Titus 2

Unanswered prayer.

You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 4

Standing still.

In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted.  Exodus 40

When God is silent.

A Canaanite woman came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” Jesus did not answer a word.  Matthew 15

Wait

While Jesus was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about."    Acts 1

It just so happened...

It just so happened that, when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.   Luke 1

An orderly account

With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.   Luke 1

Route 90 Road Map

In honour of William Tyndale was martyred in 1536 for translating the New Testament into English. His last words were "Lord! Open the King of England's eyes". Within a year afterwards, a bible was placed in every church by the King's command.

Xenophobia

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, DO NOT mistreat them. Leviticus 19.33

Dropzone

We are called to be a true witness in this, the capital city of South Africa. This is our dropzone, the place we are prepared for on Sundays, and the underlying calling we respond to on Mondays.

The God of Jacob

There's a 'Jacob' in all of us. Insecure, lonely, running from his past, grabbing at anything that offers significance. There's a God of Jacob standing in from of all of us. One who speaks louder than our past, who reaches out to us with His rest, who promises to never pass away, but rather to heal, restore and redeem.

Resurection Sunday

Easter often gets confined to Friday - the cross, the blood, our debt paid in full. However, there is more, wrapped up in the covenant of what happened on resurrection Sunday.

Good Friday

On this unprecedented day in history, God asks us...'Can I stand in your harm's way?'

Hot Cold - The Call

Whether we are in bondage, being dragged away by our bad decisions or living in a dark and lonely place, Jesus comes to us with hope, love, forgiveness and a future.

Hot Cold - The Values

What do we feel God is impressing on 3Ci to allow us to live a Hot/Cold Christianity, rather than wallow in a dull, dormant and domesticated (a.k.a. lukewarm) Christianity?

Hot Cold - The Redeemer

I have heard your cries, I have seen your tears, I know your pain and so I have come down to pry you loose from the grip of your oppressors. Exodus 3.7

Hot Cold - The Courage

We are NOT born again for safe, secluded, sanitized Christianity. We are NOT born again for dull, dormant, domesticated Christianity. Turn down the what?!

Hot Cold - The Garden Part 2

I find no flaw in you, and I have found no flaw in you. This is Kingdom living!

Hot Cold - The Garden

Fastidiousness -  being excessively particular, critical or demanding; hard to please.

Hot Cold - The Church

God's plan has always been and will always be to reach our city through the local church. God's plan has always been and will always be to reach you through the local church.

Hot Cold - The Ears

Are your ears awake? Are your ears awake? Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart, but listen and respond.

Hot Cold - The Voice

The call to the seven churches is for us to have ears that 'are awake', but having heard, we are to turn, to respond, and allow God to do in and through us all that He wants.

Hot Cold - Philadelphia Part 2

When we pursue all that the world pursues, and desire all that the world desires, we will continually despise the doors God opens for us.

Hot Cold - Philadelphia Part 1

Hot Cold is about God getting into the details of our lives, putting His finger on where we are lukewarm, calling us to lean in on His grace and mature.

Hot Cold - Laodicea Part 2

God's commands can often seem overwhelming, but when we simply put one block on top of the other, what He works out in our lives is unprecedented.

Hot Cold - Laodicea Part 1

As we begin our new series Hot Cold, we dig into Revelation 3 and find that it's not that God wants us to be hot or cold, but rather that He wants us to be hot and cold.

January III

January II

January I