CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT FEATURE #4

How Bible Scholars and Treasure Hunters Unearthed Modern Jerusalem:
Modern Israeli leaders are unequivocal about the importance of Jerusalem to the state of Israel.“It has been proved without a doubt that Jerusalem is the main artery of our national consciousness,” former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in 2017. “The root of Zionism is in Zion.

(For more info, do click the link https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/january-web-only/jerusalem-archaeology-history-zionism-treasure-hunters.html – Andrew Lawler, 27th January 2022 (inside Christianity Today)

‘Your Will Be Done’ – The Glory of Christ’s Human Choices:
All of Jesus’s human life led him to this garden. As he knelt and prayed in Gethsemane, waiting in agony – with beads of sweat “like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44) – here he made the Choice.

(For more info, do click the link https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/your-will-be-done – by David Mathis – 23th Jan 2022 (Executive Editor – inside Desiring God)

A Father’s Good Pleasure:
A recent experience stirred in me a desire to share a word for fathers. I have fathers of younger children particularly in mind, those on the front end of their fathering days, when a man is seeking to establish godly habits so that, by his example, his children might see the shadow of their heavenly Father.

(For more info, do click the link https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/a-fathers-good-pleasure – by Jon Bloom, 5th Jan 2022 (Staff Writer– inside Desiring God)

A Son Worthy to Be King:
Many a new Bible reader have run into Matthew’s Gospel, eager and determined, only to trip over the first seventeen verses. We come expecting story, expecting drama, expecting angels and magi and a baby born in Bethlehem.

(For more info, do click the link https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/a-son-worthy-to-be-king – by Scott Hubbard, 12th Dec 2021 (Editor – inside Desiring God)

Suffering Taught Me the Sovereignty of God:
Jesus saved me thirty-seven years ago. A janitor at my college used his breaks to preach the gospel. I eventually repented and believed, and Jesus rescued me from the tragedy of not knowing God.

God gave me a ravishing hunger to know him. So I read and reread my Bible, I prayed, and I prayed more, and I plunged headfirst into the church. As I grew, I was exposed to Reformed teaching about the sovereignty of God and learned that he works his purposes in my life and in all things for his glory and for the good of those who love him. Pursuing God became the passion of my life.

(For more info, do click the link – https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/suffering-taught-me-the-sovereignty-of-god by Pastor Bobby Scott (Los Angeles, California) – inside Desiring God – 22nd Nov 2021)

Prophetic Word: It’s a Season to “’Ride the Wave’”
I heard the spirit of God say “This next season looks like ‘Riding the Wave.’” Before someone rides a wave, they must learn to lie down and balance on a surfboard. This is a time of learning, training, and preparing for the progression of the surfing experience. Right before you ‘Ride the Wave,’ you must 'Catch the Wave.’ Catching the wave is “the point when the wave hits the tail end of the surfboard and starts to push the surfer as he or she is paddling.”

(For more info, do click the link – https://www.charismanews.com/culture/87306-prophetic-word-it-s-a-season-to-ride-the-wave by Diane Anil – inside Charisma News – 2nd Nov 2021)

Prophetic Insight: The Lighthouses and the Lost:
On the most eastern point of the Australian shoreline is a lighthouse. The Cape Byron Lighthouse sits 94 meters above sea level but is only 22 meters tall as it was built on a large rocky outcrop. There was no need for the lighthouse to be a towering structure because the rock on which it sits ensures the vantage point that allows it to fulfil its purpose. It shines a light into the darkness so that travelers can safely navigate the shoreline in safety.

(For more info, do click the link – https://www.charismamag.com/blogs/prophetic-insight/50024-the-lighthouses-and-the-lost by Charissa Steffens – inside Prophetic Insight – 27th Aug 2021)

How Mothers (and Others) Minister in Disrupted Spaces:
For many parents, the advent of the school year brings with it a familiar and difficult dynamic: cycles of interruptions. As mothers, in particular, we learn to be flexible with our plans and structure our days to bend to our kids’ needs.

(For more info, do click the link https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/september-web-only/how-mothers-and-others-minister-in-disrupted-spaces.html – Tina Osterhouse, 18th September 2018 (inside Christianity Today)