Yesterday our church family, along with hundreds more, celebrated the life of John Sliwinski. A husband, father, respected Alaskan Aviator, and most importantly a born-again believer. Being both a participant and observer I was moved by several observations. First was the multitude of people that came, some even from out of the state, to pay…
We are coming up on Resurrection Sunday (“Easter Sunday!”), so I thought I would write this blog based on Paul’s argument from 1 Corinthians 15, answering why it is ludicrous for Christians to doubt Christ’s resurrection. Put another way, we believe Jesus rose from the grave, with certainty. Perhaps you can use this brief Bible…
In the twelfth chapter of Exodus, we read the intricate details surrounding the last plague upon Egypt, the death of all the firstborn in the land. Part of what happened that night would involve an act of obedience through faith, to the command given to Moses by God. Innocent Blood had to be shed to…
Time is holy. I know we don’t think about time in a sacred sense. We like to relegate time as a wholly secular concept. Like gravity, it’s part of the world we live in. It moves inexorably forward. It has no morality or intrinsic ethic. It simply is. But that’s simply not true. Not from…
Peter’s sermon at Pentecost offers a series of proofs that Jesus indeed rose from death. You remember from Acts 2 that in Jerusalem the Holy Spirit descended on the early disciples and they all began to speak in “tongues” which were known languages. The manifest power of the Holy Spirit drew the multitudes around the…
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” (Philippians 1:21) An author and college professor named Earnest Becker won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for a book he wrote entitled “The Denial of Death.” I read this book as an undergraduate student at Vanderbilt University in 1978, and it had a strong…
