Please explain: How do we know that Jesus rose from the dead?
For many centuries, culture approached knowing truth through reason. The idea was that if we could just sit with each other and reason together, we would without a doubt come…
For many centuries, culture approached knowing truth through reason. The idea was that if we could just sit with each other and reason together, we would without a doubt come…
“Really? You’re going to church again? Didn’t you just go last week? Don’t you know all that stuff already? Are you really going to learn anything new or different? Why…
For many people, it’s an Old Testament Bible story that is confusing, even alarming. For every Sunday school student who has colored the picture of Abraham lifting his knife over…
For a prisoner walking out into the light after a long jail sentence, freedom can be overwhelming. He can go anywhere he wants, but he has nowhere to go: no…
The words of the young woman in confirmation class kind of hit me by surprise: “Heaven just seems like it is going to be so boring!” I have to admit: I…
YOU WORKED DILIGENTLY to make the arrangements. It wasn’t easy, but the dignitary you booked is someone famous. Now it is time to begin the celebration banquet. But the guest…
Aesop’s fables, a good sermon illustration, an analogy—these are all ways to communicate complex concepts in a way that is easier to understand. Similarly, Jesus used parables (Matthew 13, Mark…
It had been another busy stretch for Jesus. With his disciples in tow, he had been traveling all around Galilee preaching, teaching, healing, and amazing large crowds of people. He…
Jesus described the kingdom of God like a field in which weeds grow together with the wheat. The suggestion to pull up the weeds would also mean to uproot the wheat. So…