Koinonia Ministries

God loves to use apparent catastrophic defeats to accomplish the greater victory demonstrating His power.

The Word of God—written, preached, taught, seen, tasted—is sufficient for all matters of faith and practice.

By Caleb Crockett

The resurrection grounds meaning at the intersection of transcendence and immanence.

Due to discussion style of this lesson, audio may be challenging to discern occasionally in the middle portion of the recording. However, a monologue style opens and concludes this lesson.

Flourishing are you in the eschatological judgment if you hear and do the teachings of Jesus that call for whole person, authentic righteousness.

Flourish by letting go of things held in sinful anger and seek the restoration of relationships. Flourish by killing every lustful thought that turns humans into objects for self-gratification. Flourishing by being faithful and forgiving in your marriages!

Flourish by bearing witness to the New Covenant, even in persecution, as you will gain fellow God-glorifiers. Flourish by seeking the glory of the Father instead of trying to get glory for yourself. Flourish by having boundaries guided by God’s will revealed in His law. Flourish by allowing those rules to become so part of your heart that you don’t think of them as rules anymore.

Flourishing are those who forgive and restore even in the face of the most painful debts because they are showing that they have and will receive forgiveness and mercy from God. Flourishing are those who have congruency between internal and external righteousness because they will be ever expanding in their eternal delight of the triune God. Flourishing are those willing to seek peace in relations...

Flourishing are those who know that they are spiritually destitute, for only from this beginning point can one receive everything in the Kingdom. Flourishing are those that feel and mourn the weight of your own sinfulness and the brokenness of the world because God will comfort you by changing you and setting all things right. Flourishing are those that act humbly and not seeking the power struggl...

The beginning of the flourishing life—the door of the Kingdom even—is for those that confidently, humbly acknowledge their radical spiritual bankruptcy.

The Apostle’s Creed is a faithful summary of the Biblical data regarding where Christ was between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. Concluding his humiliation and beginning His exaltation, Christ descended to the realm of the dead (consciously, as both God and man) to declare victory against demonic forces and for His church.

God is directing our lives and missions. He takes us to surprising and new places, and there we find that households can shake empires.

This is a special episode where Sam Somesan delivers a lecture at Taylor University on the topic of informative speech preparation and sermon construction.

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The church defends the free Gospel by faith alone (with no law) and no idolatry.

The dynamic dependence required by faith can be frightening, but freedom is worth the fright of rest.

The church is an institution composed of members. Those members play an active, essential, vital role as priests who guard the church against heretical doctrinal and practice. Members are collectively authorized to stamp and un-stamp their approval on “who” true Christians are. Thus, members carry a gravely important responsibility that must be exercised with wisdom and caution, but it must be exe...

No matter the highs and lows, Paul and Barnabas successfully completed their first missionary journey by resting in Christ and His calling—not on the praise of men. They didn’t think of themselves as entirely different or better. They were messengers who told the news of Jesus come what may. They were then faithful people who returned to encourage the disciples to remain faithful in the fight.

Jesus, by the hands of Paul and Barnabas, conquers and sets free an island territory bound under the Satanic spell of syncretistic false religion.

Using the exodus motif from Israel and Jesus, Luke prepares the reader for a new phase in the life of the Church. Persecution, sluggish faith, and the powers of the world are easily overcome by God. Jesus continues to use the unlikely and unimportant as models for watchful faithfulness as He works to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

Following in the positive wake of Peter’s defense, the church becomes surprisingly multiethnic in Antioch. Jerusalem sends an encouraging man by the name of Barnabas to help the ministry; as the ministry grows, Barnabas recruits his old friend Paul for further assistance. In a surprising twist, famine strikes the Jerusalem church, and it is Antioch which comes to the aid of Jerusalem. These surpri...

Josh Sneed covers the Gentile Pentecost of Acts 10.

In prelude to the Gentile Pentecost, Peter heals Aeneas and raises Tabitha. These episodes continue to stretch Peter’s understanding and involvement in the gentile mission. Luke is likely contrasting these individuals with characters from Virgil’s Aeneid to highlight that the expansion of the kingdom of God brings life in contrast to the destructive expansion of the worldly kingdom of Rome.”

Paul comes to life and exits exile as the church affirms Paul’s conversion and is baptized. Paul immediately begins acting on the calling that the Lord has given him by ministering to both Jew and Gentile audiences, proclaiming Christ to them. A few years later, Paul engages with the Apostolic headquarters in Jerusalem largely thanks to Barnabas’ affirmation of Paul. Paul escapes death threats onc...