This month on Christian Book Club we are reading “Breakthrough” by Derek Morphew. As we enter Week 3 we will be reading; The Messianic Banquet, The Kingdom and the Church, ‘Already - Not Yet’ people, The End of Cessationism, and Healing.

This weeks chapters hold some of my favorite concepts about the Kingdom of God. An excellent description of the differnce between the Church and the Kingdom is given on page 150. The chapter on the ‘Already - Not Yet’, (which Ladd refers to as the Now and Not Yet) will help to explain the tension that exists between so many scriptures. The Kingdom is here and yet not fully here. Jesus inaugurated the Kingdom in His first coming, When He come back again He will consumate the Kingdom. We live in this tension,, and it is in this tension that we find our Messiah King!

I did a lot of teaching on the Kingdom of God over the last year. I am going to include the first in a series of teaching I did here. If you would like to watch more of them you can follow the video back to the rest of them.

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Please pray for all the people who were impacted by Hurricane Ike in Texas, Louisiana, Cuba, and the Caribbean. The storm went to the South of us here in the Florida Keys, but we know first hand how difficult the after math of a hurricane is. If you are interested in Hurricanes, you may want to check out Hurricane Tracking Sites, which not only has links to the top hurricane sites, it also includes information about hurricanes and their impacts.