I love the book of John. It is such an intimate portrait of Jesus and so unlike the other Gospels, in that it reflects Jesus in a completely different way than the others. In the book of John, we read Jesus refer to Himself as seven “I Ams”. In these seven “I Am” statements, we…
One questions that has plagued every generation is “Where do I go after I die?” It is written on every human being’s heart that this life cannot possibly be all there is. There must be something for us after death. We are not just a blob of mass on our way to the fertilizer pile….
I have taken the Lord’s Supper in many settings and atmospheres; some that bordered on the mystical and others that were so relaxed so as to nearly desecrate the holy act. I have had wafers, small rectangles, kosher Jewish matza; wine, juice, and kool-aide-type substances. The origins of what we term the Lord’s Supper date…
I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of a worship party, I’m not sure this idea would have come to me all on it’s own, but in the end, it was the best birthday party I’d ever had. My 50th birthday was coming up. A milestone. The half-century mark. I don’t usually do much to celebrate…
Pray through the final days of Jesus’ life with this 40 Day Prayer Challenge for Easter. This prayer challenge takes you through the final days of Jesus’ life while parallel reading each event in the 4 gospels; plus adding in prophetic readings from the Old Testament. This comes with a free 40-day reading plan and…
Do you know why salvation is so hard for people to understand? Because it’s based in a completely different culture. Our culture understands investment and returns. Our culture understands decisions and consequences. It understands labor and wages. But it doesn’t understand grace and undeserved favor. In fact, many find these ideas humiliating, because we are…
