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The Unlikely Marriage of Mission and Institution

Mike Kelly | March 13, 2025

How the New Testament Did the Great Commission and What it Means for the Church Today —by— Rev. Michael Kelly Executive Director of the Northwest Church Planting Network Part 1 The Structure of New Testament Koinonia— The Bible is full of “fly over” passages we skim on our way to more famous destinations. The lay […]

The Mind of God

Mike Kelly | March 2, 2025

Mike Kelly | February 13, 2022 “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.” Psalm 139.10 David knew his theology and rejoiced to put it to verse. His pen overflowed with odes to God’s glorious perfections and left a treasury of choral divinity that’s delighted us for ages. This Psalm is no exception, but its theology […]

Eight Days to Easter

Mike Kelly | January 1, 2024

Sunday Meds

Lord's Day meditations to help you keep going

Artifacts

Mike Kelly | March 30, 2025

This is post 1 of 1 in the series “legacy” …do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God. Nehemiah 13.14 I’m writing this Med in Britain a few miles away from churches built 700 years ago on sites that hosted Christian worship 700 years before […]

In Defense of Harshness

Mike Kelly | March 16, 2025

You are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity. Acts 8.23 The converted magician, Simon, had the very bad idea to buy the Holy Spirit and got an epic rebuke and a bad rep for two-thousand years. Before this Med continues, the I want to be clear that offering to purchase […]

If-Then

Mike Kelly | March 9, 2025

Lord, if that is you command me to come to you on the water Mth 14.28. Such is the peculiar if-then calculus of all ministers. What does Peter think happens if it’s not Jesus? And who else would it be? Is he testing Jesus or himself? But that’s how people like us think. The life […]