Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church (The Gospel Coalition)

The church in Dubai is a snapshot of what God is doing all over the world. The gospel, by the power of the Holy Spirit, is going out to the ends of the earth, creating a people for God from every tribe, tongue, and nation to spread his glory and enjoy him forever. In the end,

That relationship was broken in the fall—as sin came in and separated us from our holy creator God. But he restores that relationship by giving us his Word, ultimately his Word made flesh; we’ll see Isaiah 55 pointing us toward that restoration found only in Jesus Christ.

the entire body of Christ.

Week after week she would dive deeply into the truths of the Bible. The treasures that she discovered during our times together had a huge impact on the rest of us and on all the rest of her own life and

The call not to neglect our inner experience is a valid one, but everything turns on the question of whose voice is directing us, whether it be our own or the voices around us or the voice of God given to us in his Word.

And yet we believers claim to stake our lives on these words and others like them, putting our hope in the clear central message of Isaiah’s book:

What’s the picture Isaiah uses for God’s Word? It’s a picture of rain and snow coming down from heaven, giving life to the earth and making things grow. It’s a picture of a heavenly gift—a gift that comes, remarkably enough, from God’s mouth.

Our God is a speaking God. How did God create the world? By speaking. He said, “Let there be light” (Gen. 1:3), and there was light, not after but in the speaking of the words.

these peoples won’t remain in isolation but will worship God together as his treasured possession at the marriage supper of the Lamb (Rev. 19:6