Without Christ’s resurrection Christians are the most-to-be-pitied humans. But because of the truth of Christ’s resurrection Christians have “more hope” than anyone. We pray that that truth of his resurrection will be a reality in your life today. The event which took place on that first Easter Sunday morning set in motion an inevitable chain […]
Our Easter message tomorrow will be based on 1 Corinthians 15:19-28. We will consider the importance of Christ’s resurrection to hope for our own resurrection and the final overthrow of evil and death in the universe at the return of Christ. The event which took place on Easter Sunday morning set in motion an inevitable chain […]
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“…humbling us with the mercy God requires so we can see the mercy God offers.” Tim Keller in Ministries of Mercy, p. 66. I’ve been meditating on this quote for some time. I’ve revised this into a more general statement regarding the value of the Law or the commands of God in our lives: “Seeing […]
Today was the third and last sermon in the mini-series on this verse. What a challenging set of sermons, but we have also been so encouraged by the work of Christ. The way in which Christ demonstrated, how he lived out what Paul in Ephesians is encouraging us to do. Many places in the Old […]
I read a helpful quote recently in Tim Keller’s Ministries of Mercy regarding determining your Christian calling. I paraphrased it this way, “The way to determine if God calls you to a special ministry is to find an agreement of three issues. There will be a desire to do it, an ability to do it […]
I’ve been thinking about a helpful quote I read or heard somewhere recently that said something to this effect, “Preaching is different from teaching in that it is personal and requires a response.”
Today was the second of three sermons in the mini-series on this verse. The sermon title- and the sermon, for that matter -might sound a bit familiar. Pastor Dan is “lingering” over this verse; perhaps we need to hear it more than once before it begins to sink in? As we approach Easter, we are reminded […]