Altogether New Life

I’ve got a confession to make. I love the Church. This isn’t a puppy love, or a naïve love. I’ve loved the Church for a long time. I grew up in it; I’ve seen Her best and Her worst. I’ve played a lot of positions on the Church team: pastor, evangelist, church planter,...

The disciple Peter watched Jesus go up in Acts 1. Can you imagine? One minute Jesus is promising dynamite like power so that the Word gets out to Jerusalem and ultimately the ends of the earth, and the next, you see sunlight between His feet and the ground. Your...

I grew up watching Mission Impossible. I’m not talking about the Tom Cruise blockbusters, I’m talking about the Peter Graves TV series. Who can forget the opening scene where Peter’s character would get the casseFe taped invitation to the mission (should he choose to...

I believe that we have over-individualized Christianity. We talk about personal salvation and personal holiness. We keep people accountable to their personal devotions. We challenge believers to find out what their personal spiritual gibs are. Christianity seems very...

God’s grace operates in our lives before we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord. It comes while we are still sinners (Romans 5:8). God is always the initiator in the relationship. He moves first. Let me illustrate. Suppose a 10-year-old girl decides she will...

The principles that a Christian believes in are called doctrine. One of the most important doctrines that we have believed since early Christianity has to do with the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. For many of us in the Church, it is accepted but not explored....

Christianity comes with the promise that our Father will supply all of our needs according to the full inheritance that has been given to His Son, Jesus (Philippians 4:19). As has been already described in this booklet, four of the most important resources that God...

An adventure is typically an activity that involves risk, danger, and excitement. That is certainly a good description of new life in Jesus Christ. And this is especially true in our Home. We may very well be seeing the last generation before the return of Jesus. The...

Altogether New Life is a tool to help get people in God’s amazing family together. God doesn’t intend that any of us make it on our own. Rugged individualism may be American, but it is not ChrisHan. In God’s family, we are called to a whole lot of “one anothers”: be...