Discovering Peace in Bo Giertz’s The Hammer of God
Discover the true source of peace in this excerpt from Bo Giertz’s The Hammer of God
What Language Can I Borrow?
Even if you have to borrow from others, (giving them the proper credit, of course!), find the best words possible to praise Jesus, our amazing Savior.
A Foretaste of Easter
Text: John 11:25-26, Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.” The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Series A Based on today’s readings you could think that today was a Sunday during the…
Test the Lord with These Words
Text: Exodus 17:7 And he [Moses] called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?” (ESV) The Third Sunday in Lent, Series A Intro. Our text for today tells us that…
Holy Week Processions
No one does religious pomp and circumstance like the Roman Catholics. Below is a video from one of several religious processions in the city of Madrid on Good Friday, 2024. Even though temps were in the 40’s several people were walking barefoot and some had chains on their feet. As impressive as these acts of…
Rejoicing to See the Grace of God
June 11 is the day set aside in the church calendar to honor Barnabas, one who had experienced the grace of God in his own life and rejoiced to see God’s grace in the lives of others.
Rise and Enter the City, and You Will Be Told What To Do
It is hard to imagine how the course of Christianity would have been different if Jesus had not appeared to a man named Saul as he was traveling from Jerusalem to Damascus to find and persecute Christians. After Jesus appeared to Saul, who was later renamed Paul, Saul changed from being a persecutor of Christians…
Pentecost Frogs
Pastor Vance Becker and his wife, Linda are missionaries teaching at a seminary in Kenya, Africa. One of their students, Benjamin, comes from a very dry part of Africa. Even though it is dry, there are still many animals in Benjamin’s area. Each animal had its own unique voice but there is the voice of…
Christ Clasping the Cross
Jesus told his followers regularly to take up their cross daily and follow him: And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. [24] For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for…
Thomas’ Great Opportunity
Thomas could have become the first true believer – to believe in Jesus’ resurrection from the dead without actually seeing it – but he blew it.
He did, however, become the very first confessor.
Mirror Neurons 