Parkside Mission

How does God speak to your desires? Desires might be the difference between humans and any other creature. Never content to have just what we need, we are driven by desire. Call it a thirst for something more. Call it a hunger for more than bread, more than meat. The ancient revelation of the scriptures ask us to not just control desire, but to listen to our desire.  For example, the Hebrew prophet Isaiah poetically related our desire to an invitation from God. Listen to how God wants to meet us in our quest: “Come, all you who are thirsty,   come to the waters; and you who have no money,   come, buy  and eat  .  Come, buy wine and milk   without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread,   and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,   and you will delight in the richest  of fare.   Give ear and come to me;   listen,  that you may live. 1 Did you not...

Study Notes for John 7:37-39 Introduction This passage became a favorite of mine after reading Jack Miller’s book Outgrowing the Ingrown Church. The book tells his story of the Lord renewing his faith in Christ and the promises of God’s grace that were available to him by continual repentance and faith. I really needed to experience the same renewal in my own life and ministry. (and still do!)  So, I started committing the passage to memory. Since then I have often referred to this passage as I cast vision for our ministry to college students here in Atlanta and to unreached peoples throughout the world. Here is a compilation of some of my study notes on the passage that you can read as you reflect on this wonderful and potent passage from the Gospel of John. I.                     I. The   Passage 37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voic...