Author: Jojo Agot

Pastor at Victory. Faculty and adviser at Every Nation Leadership Institute (ENLI). MA in Theology and Mission at Every Nation Seminary.

The Bible

Henry Van Dyke on the power and importance of the Bible:

Born in the East and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet and enters land after land to find its own everywhere. It comes to the palace to tell the monarch that he is a servant of the Most High, and into the cottage to assure the peasant that he can be a son of God. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as parables of life.

It has a word of peace for the time of peril, a word of comfort for the time of calamity, a word of light for the hope of darkness. Its oracles are repeated in the assembly of the people, and its counsels whispered in the ear of the lonely. The wicked and the proud tremble at its warnings, but to the wounded and penitent it has a mother’s voice.

No man is poor or desolate who has this treasure for his own. When the landscape darkens and the trembling pilgrim comes to the valley named of the shadow, he is not afraid to enter; he takes the rod and staff of Scripture in his hand, he says to his friend and comrade, “Goodbye, we shall meet again”; and comforted by that support, he goes toward the lonely pass as one who walks through darkness into light.

This is Not a Tongue Twister

The Resurrection could be defined as the Death of Death in the Death of Christ (a title of John Owen’s book). When Jesus rose from the dead, He delivered a fatal blow on death, the very source of all our fears. For the first time since the creation of the world, death is not to be feared anymore. Jesus killed death so that those who believe in Him will live and never have to die.

Why the Cross is Empty

Because Jesus is not forever nailed to that cross. He was taken down and was burried and He rose again on the third day. If you worship a Jesus still nailed on a cross, your religion is incomplete. The EMPTY TOMB is the signature of God that declares our hope for deliverance from the clutches of sin. It is the ultimate symbol of the finished work of Christ. Without the resurrection, Calvary is just an ordinary Roman execution site and the cross is just another piece of wood.

Why We Fill Our Lives with Trivialities

A.W. Tozer on Experiencing the Presence of God:

The great passion in the heart of every human being is to experience the awesome majesty of God’s presence. The highest accomplishment of humanity is entering the overwhelming presence of God. Nothing else can satiate this burning thirst.

The average person, unable to understand this passion for intimacy with God, fills his life with things, hoping somehow to satisfy his inward longing. He chases that which is exterior, hoping to satisfy that inner thirst, but to no avail.

St. Augustine captured the essence of this desire in his CONFESSIONS: “Thou hast created us for Thyself and we are restless until we rest fully in Thee.” This explains the spirit of restlessness pervading every generation and every culture- always striving but never coming to the knowledge of the truth of God’s presence.