Running the Race
As Christians we are called to keep journeying toward a promised shoreline, enduring the elements and persevering toward a place we’ve never seen or been to, but that we were created for.
As Christians we are called to keep journeying toward a promised shoreline, enduring the elements and persevering toward a place we’ve never seen or been to, but that we were created for.
“The year that King Uzziah died,” things looked bleak from Isaiah’s point of view. Uzziah had died alienated from God. And just a few years before, in 745 B.C., the ruthless imperialist Tiglath-Pileser III had taken the throne of Assyria and begun a campaign of terror and conquest. Israel was in his path. The king was dead and the kingdom of Israel looked like it would be swept away.
Political instability, a plummeting dollar resulting in a severe financial crisis, echoes of a Civil War that didn’t end until 1990, and a general hopelessness from repeated cycles of corrupt government. This is what Marwan Aboul-Zelof and his young family entered when they moved to Beirut, Lebanon in 2016 to plant a church.
When we come to the end of our reason to live, we need to consider if we’ve based our life on the wrong thing.
We always say the gospel changes everything — and we believe it really does. So this August, we are asking everyone in our audience to pray that God would give them the opportunity to share the gospel with someone, and that they would step out in faith to do small acts.
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The New City Catechism Devotional summarizes key Christian beliefs through 52 weekly devotions. Each week’s devotional looks at a question and answer about a specific aspect of Christian doctrine, and features a scripture reading, a short prayer and a devotional commentary.