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“I will make a new covenant with Israel. I will put my law in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people” (Hebrews 8:10).   A murky atmosphere floated in, blanketing Jerusalem after Rome conquered their territory. ...

Have you ever pictured your faith as a piece of bread that you’re carrying around, half-doubtfully hoping that someone out there will want it or suddenly see their need for it? In a meeting recently in which a group of us were praying for a community event, the Lord showed ...

“I wish Christians in the west understood their authority in Christ,” a friend from India said. His remark brought to mind the word “covenant.” Perhaps the west struggles with the idea of covenant because our greatest earthly covenant–marriage–is seldom fully understood or honored. We don’t comprehend, therefore, the covenant we have ...

In John 19:30, when Jesus said, “It is finished,” just before he died on the cross, it meant that the Old Covenant was at an end and the New Covenant just beginning. The prophecies of Christ, as “The Son of Man” were now fulfilled and Christ’s days on the earth ...

When God entered into covenant with His people Israel, circumcision, the removal of the male foreskin, represented what was fleshly being cut away. The Hebrew word for covenant, in fact, means “to cut.” The physical act of circumcision was to be symbolic of a greater reality for God’s people–that which was ungodly and ...