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If the "kingdoms of this world are to become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ" then you and I have to take the rule of Jesus out into the world around us.  Isn't the present expression of the kingdom of God wherever we see the uncontested rule of Jesus through his people?  For years I have been challenged by what the medical world would look like if it was being run by Jesus.  A simplistic answer might be that Jesus would just heal everybody.  But that has not been my experience.  I…

Years before the simplechurch.com site was ever conceived of, in those antediluvian days when House2House actually published a magazine, I wrote an article entitled, "Where In The World Is The Church."  The drift of the article was that real church needs to be out in the world, in the community, where it actively, daily, naturally impacts the lives of those who do not yet know Jesus.  In that article I remember saying that we probably…

I love a great fairy-tale.  And watching parts of the Royal Wedding on Friday seemed just like the fairy-tales that I loved as a kid.  Whatever I know of their lives so far, and I know very little, I can't help but love the "tale" that is told when such a high profile wedding occurs amid the pomp and ceremony that the Brits handle with such aplomb!  This is a part of my British heritage which I still admire greatly.

But at its core I also fully recognize that what we have…

Maybe it is the fact that I am only recently a naturalized American citizen. But it surprises me how many Christians seem to have just given up on the poltical system, and are basically happy to let other people make the choices that run this country. Since when does been a Kingdom of God citizen give us the right to abdicate our responsibilities to the country that we are a part of. As the famous quote from a couple of centuries ago puts it, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men…