John Herron explores a number of historical atonement theories about the crucifixion of Jesus and shows us how the cross is ultimately the fullest revelation of a loving, reconciling, forgiving God.
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John Herron explores Esther chapters 3 & 4, where Haman plots to destroy the Jews. Mordecai urges Esther to intervene, challenging her with the powerful question: "Perhaps you were made queen for this."
In the second teaching John Herron looks at the goal of being alone with God in the silence: ultimately to hear God’s voice over all the other voices in our head.
In Part 3 John Herron helps us see the role fasting has in both hearing God and being heard by God. When prayer and fasting link arms, it’s often the tipping point in the struggle to release God’s Kingdom, on earth as it is in heaven.
In Prayer part 3 John Herron helps us understand that prayer is not just when we talk but when we listen to hear his voice. As Jesus said in John 10v27, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” This is a Spirit-generated desire in the heart of a disciple of Jesus.
In Sabbath part 3 John Herron looks at the third movement of Sabbath– delight. Sorrow is inevitable in this life, but joy is not. In the Way of Jesus, joy is a gift, but it’s one that must be chosen and cultivated, day after day, as an act of apprenticeship to our joyful God.
John Herron speaks from Acts 10 and Peter’s remarkable encounter on a rooftop with the Holy Spirit that reveals to him the radical inclusion and border transcending nature of the Gospel leading to the addition of Gentile believers to the church.
John Herron shows how the small and, at first, seemingly insignificant story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch from Acts 8 demonstrates just how vast and inclusive the Kingdom of God is. Part of our series ‘Liberated by Love’