From The Equipper

Built by Christ, Led by the Spirit | May 2025 Daniel Zachariah, GCI Superintendent for Asia   “I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” This statement by Jesus has long brought encouragement to his followers. Christians also take great comfort from Jesus’ promise to send the Holy […]

  We often view life as transactional — where effort earns reward and love is conditional.  Even as Christians, we can feel like there is something we need to do to prove ourselves to God, to prove we love him, or to somehow gain his love.  It’s easy to project this transactional mindset onto God,

  This coming Sunday will be the seventh Sunday of Easter (also known as Ascension Sunday).  It’s a day when many Christians remember/celebrate the Ascension of the Lord, when Jesus returned to the Father’s side. The theme for the coming week, starting Sunday, is The Blessing of Christ’s Ascension. The selected passages, for tonight’s study,

Faith is Not Enough Participating in the Love Avenue doesn’t make us right with God — it shows we already are.   I spent most of my life studying the Bible in an effort to get right with God. I studied the Old Testament so I could be faithful to some of the law, statutes, and

Ordinary Time What is it, and what does it have to do with me? When Greg Williams asked me to start focusing on the Christian worship calendar in Equipper, I thought, “Sure, that will be good for a couple articles. What else?” I had no idea of the depth of meaning and purpose we find in

Pentecost – What the Day Fulfilled and Looks Forward To Pentecost is much more than the beginning of the New Testament church. It’s a day of change that includes reversals, firsts, fulfilled prophecy and promises, identification, affirmation, and power. I’m one of those odd persons that loves change. Not all changes, mind you, but I

Jesus’ Ascension – An End, A Beginning, and An End The ascension represents the completion of God’s work in Christ incarnate and the completion of Christ’s work in us. It’s easy to gloss over the Ascension as we move through the 50 days of Easter toward our celebration of Pentecost, but we should not do

We Believe; Help Our Unbelief The journey through Holy Week and beyond helps us with our unbelief. The disciples had been through a lot with Jesus; they’d seen multitudes fed, demons rebuked, people healed, and the dead brought back to life. There was still confusion in their minds about who Jesus really was, but some