Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and 1 Corinthians 15:50-57.

Chapter 15 teaches the intimate connection that exists between Christ’s resurrection and ours. One gets its meaning from the other. We are not to believe in the resurrection of Jesus as a reality for Jesus alone, apart from its impact upon the very nature of our own lives.

This chapter is a glorious new resumé about who you are in Christ Jesus. It expresses the very essence of your faith. The reading stands in contrast to any less worthy way that you see your life—worthiness not of your own doing, but rather of what Christ Jesus has recreated you to be in his own body.

As you prayerfully read this and the final chapter, the very familiar verses will take on a greater, inner illumination for your own nourishment. Give thanks to the Lord for this great letter … and for your new resumé!

1 Corinthians 15—16

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Fridays are dedicated to the Gospels.
In the season of Kingdomtide this year we read Matthew 19 to 28.

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Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and the Psalm.

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The messianic joy of yesterday continues. Hebrews 1:8–9 applies these verses to Christ. From this understanding, the bride is the church, as the writer of Ephesians describes in 5:32.

If there is any event of great joy in human life, it is a marriage. Married love begins with a burst of energy and direction in life. The two look to the future together with anticipation and fresh joy.

For mystic writers, the soul is feminine before God. As the bridegroom, Christ seeks to carry you as his beloved into the house of his risen body. What plans he has for you as you move into the future together!

Picture the “oil of gladness” of verse 7 flowing over you, completely transforming you.

Psalm 45

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We continue to follow the Psalms in numerical order.

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Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and the beginning of the reading: 2 Samuel 19:1-8.

Power, division, and disloyalty continue, eventually resulting in the two separate kingdoms of Israel and Judah after the death of Solomon. “I am content just to have you back again, my lord!” 19:30. This verse comes from the lips of Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson whom David had taken as his own. The return of King David is all that Mephibosheth wants; everything else can go. The presence of the Lord Christ in your heart—what else do you need?

The side of Jesus was opened and divided, so that there could be healing and reconciliation among those torn by division. Even the inner divisions that may be breaking your heart are healed, because Jesus had his heart broken for you.

Greater is the power of Jesus’s love than the powers that would split you apart.

2 Samuel 19—21

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Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the season of Kingdomtide this year we read Proverbs 15-16, 2 Samuel and Ecclesiastes 1-4.

For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook.  You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information