Slowing Down, Seeing More
Because May can be as busy as December, we're going to slow the pace: not just so that more can keep up, but so that we may see more. It's ...
Racing to the Tomb
Incredulous at Mary's report, Peter and John suddenly raced to the tomb. Eugene Burnand (1898) "The Disciples Peter and John Racing To the Sepulcher on the Morning of the Resurrection" ...
Holy Week Through John’s Eyes
Together, with the "disciple Jesus loved," we will travel through Holy Week. Jennifer stole my heart when filming "The Jesus Who Surprises" in Georgia last February. Jennifer was ...
The Seventh Sign
Seven is an important number in Scripture. There are seven miracles in John, all called "signs." We come to the seventh sign, The last sign before the cross, the raising ...
Deliver Us From Spiritual Blindness!
The closer we get to the cross, the more significant the "signs" become. The 6th miracle in John is the healing of a man born blind. But there is way ...
The Enemy and The Gospel
We have an enemy who prowls about like a lion, looking for fresh meat. He hides. And we are apt to forget him, which gives him a real advantage. ...
A Key To Unlocking God’s Secrets
Why is there so much repetition in nature? Because one Creator did it all. And why, though there are 66 books in the Bible, written over many centuries, from ...
Lenten Joy!
If the words "Lenten Joy" seem like an oxymoron, it's because Lent needed reforming, it needed the gospel! So as we begin this first full Lenten week, let us contemplate ...
A Fresh Approach To Lent (2019)
Lent can be an exciting season of renewal, especially if approached through the gospel lens. Lent officially begins this Ash Wednesday, March 6th, and ends on Easter, April 21st. Excluding ...
Relationships Transformed By The Gospel
Blest Be The Tie That Binds! And what is that Tie? Jesus and the Gospel He brings. A gospel that can deliver us not only from the penalty of sin, ...
WHY LIBERAL CHURCHES ARE DYING
I've always applied the passage in Galatians 5 to me as an individual. If I abide in Christ, and He abides in me, Jesus promises, I will bear much fruit ...
An Empowering Secret To Overcoming
It was the secret to the victorious life of Jonathan Edwards. It is a secret our own Chris shared two weeks ago. It is a secret hidden in Galatians 5 ...
WHO IS YOUR MOTHER?
Works-righteousness, Luther said, is the default mode of the human heart. Instead of resting in God's love and approval of me, I am constantly building my own righteousness. I want ...
Are You Experiencing Your Abba?
It is one thing to know legally, that you are a son of God because of what Jesus did for you on the cross. It is quite another to experience the love of ...
THE MARK OF A CHRISTIAN
Francis Schaeffer was unique, a Reformed theologian, who, along with his wife, Edith, formed L'abri (meaning shelter) in Switzerland: a place where individuals could come and discuss truth, God, and ...