God's Purpose

This teaching stream explores God’s Purpose in time-space history.

Humankind dreams of a better world, but how can that happen? God has a plan for human flourishing – a new world here and now – and it's revealed in the person of Jesus Christ and his Gospel. It is explicated through the biblical motif of 'Kingdom & Covenant'—God's Government and its Constitution as the genius of a New World Order.

A Biblical View of Church and State: Implications for Same-Sex Marriage

August 12, 2017 by David Orton

In understanding the biblical role of church and state – and its implications for homosexuality – we must first understand the transformational nature of God’s kingdom. Christ is not only “head over all things to the church” (Eph 1:22), but also “ruler of kings on earth” (Rev 1:5). Through Christ’s resurrection and ascension he has been given “all authority in heaven and on … [Read more...]

Where Are We Going?

July 23, 2017 by W. J. Ern Baxter (1914-1993)

Ern Baxter MP3 Teaching Series: Where Are We Going? Part 1 How ought the Christian understand “where he is going” in terms of God’s purpose for history? Without a clear direction and destination it is very easy to wander and get lost. Ern explicates a rousing biblical vision of God’s purpose for his people corporately, exploring what God intends his people to be, to do, and … [Read more...]

Reality & the Inescapable God: Foundations in Christian Worldview

June 10, 2017 by Virginia Orton

The Inescapable God “… we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter” Isa 28:15 – Part 2 of 3 – An Inescapable Reality The foundation of any worldview is its view of origins. What a person accepts as ultimate will shape everything else. The biblical worldview is grounded in its doctrine of creation, which, in contrast to naturalism’s … [Read more...]

‘Fire on the Earth’: God’s Dealings with the West

May 17, 2017 by David Orton

The malaise of the 21st century Western church, in an increasingly hostile secular culture, urges us to penetrate its cause and radically re-cast the Christian vision for the 21st century. What is required is nothing short of the recovery of the biblical vision for a kingdom-shaped ecclesia; designed and destined by God to transform entire cultures and disciple nations. Even … [Read more...]

The Christian in the World

April 29, 2017 by W. J. Ern Baxter (1914-1993)

Ern Baxter MP3 Teaching Series Mankind in Crisis: Part 1 Why is our world in crisis? How is the Christian to understand the tension between being in the world but not of the world? And what is the 'world'? If God so loves the world that he gave his own Son for it, what does it mean for the Christian to not love the world? Ern unpacks this paradox, explaining: The world we … [Read more...]