Jesus stands at the door and knocks, in complete reality.He asks you for help in the form of a beggar,in the form of a ruined human being in torn clothing.He confronts you in every person that you meet.Christ walks on the earth as your neighbour as long as there are people. He ...
He is Christ’s representative on earth. He stands in the shoes of Jesus. The line of Popes reaches back to Christ himself. When a Pope dies, we believe that the Holy Spirit guides the Cardinals towards selecting another holy man who is worthy of representing Christ on earth. Last Monday...
One thing I do know in this hour is this: You don’t have to wait until after you die to look at things around you in the light of Easter, in the light of the resurrection of Jesus. The risen Jesus invites you to look at his hands and his feet, to remember how he poured out ...
not an idea to be explained. “I wonder as I wander out under the sky,” says the old Nativity carol, “why Jesus our Savior did come for to die / for poor ornery people like you
On Sundays, small town America would gather in churches and living rooms and sing all day, in huge choirs of people, most of whom were trained in music only in that they did this every damned week. Different singers conducted each song, so that there was no one leader, and everyone ...
or eat that wrong food. The question crossed my mind if Jesus had to be intentional in making good choices and being obedient when he was growing up. Many times when I asked my kids when they were growing up and even high school or college age, why they did what they did, or why ...
31 I face death every day—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32 If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 33 Do not be...
Jesus rose from the dead, he did not die a second time. Instead,40 days after his resurrection , Jesus left the Earth by being taken up, body and soul, to Heaven to re-join God the Father. This event is called the ascension , and it was witnessed by Jesus' eleven remaining apostles...
Jesus again said to them, I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins; and where I am going you cannot come. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Yeshua spoke again to them: “I am moving on and you will seek me and you will die in your sins, and where ...
John Piper in What Jesus Demands from the World says, “He did not die to make this life easy for us or prosperous. He died to remove every obstacle to our everlasting joy in making much of him. And he calls us to follow him in his sufferings because this life of joyful suffering fo...