For May 1, 2026
Kingdom Come by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
CHRISTIANS ARE A PECULIAR FOLK . We live in two worlds, despising and despairing the one, while both waiting and seeking the other. The world below has had its beauty permanently tarnished and its best hopes stripped away, and all of this by destructive human interaction. This has blemished both the natural world and the world of relationships between peoples at every level. Even as our latest scientific achievements reveal further secrets of the far-flung cosmos, the escalating tensions in all the world cultures seem to push the boundaries of heaven further and further from our needy grasp. We are in paradoxical tension, with the force of something greater than gravity anchoring us to a decaying earth even as the swelling force of the God’s Spirit within our human form, like helium in a balloon, strains upward towards an unrealized heaven