When the Music Stops
Published April 13, 2012For those who like music, there’s a deadly pause after you hear a favorite song. The radio quickly fills in the space with a commercial, but in real life when the music stops we’re often at a loss to know what to do next. In a sense, it’s the same with Easter. What do you do after Easter? What can possibly top the resurrection? The disciples must have felt much the same thing. They saw Jesus crucified dead, then wonderfully resurrected! They were excited, but then again, they expected Jesus to keep stoking their fire. The angel summarized it at [...]
read moreGoing Home
Published March 9, 2012We went down to the National Memorial Cemetery in Phoenix this past week to lay Patrick Suter’s mortal remains to rest. For too many Americans, such an event is the end of life…period. This is a modern tragedy. It need not be because the life, teaching, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ says something different. Jesus’ bodily resurrection from the dead says that life continues. Our human consciousness is not erased. There’s something more. So, it is that Easter testifies to continuance of human personality. It’s true. I spent a lot of time last Sunday bringing the testimony to [...]
read moreThe Resurrection
Published April 22, 2011We believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. That seems simple and straightforward enough but in this day of doubting, cynicism and questioning, the resurrection faces opposition. Why? Well, dead men don’t rise. It’s a matter of human experience. There are also a growing number of Christians who have seen the dead rise, particularly on the mission field. Fact or fake? Ask the witnesses. Then there’s the heavy consequences of such a thing. If Jesus did arise from the dead, we are obligated to respond. The resurrection validates all He taught and stood for. Add to this the fact [...]
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Published March 25, 2011New life! The return of the sun and the warming of the earth after a long, dark and cold winter has always been a joy. So much so…that humans have created a whole mythology around it. The ancients dreamed-up the goddess Eastre. She was their symbol for fertility and new life. She eventually got mixed-up with the Roman Catholic season of resurrection, and to save the trouble of explaining the Christian view to the pagans, the church just adopted their “spring goddess’s name” as the representation of Jesus’ Resurrection. We can get upset about the pagan accommodations that twist and [...]
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