The title for Psalm 148 is “Praise the Name of the Lord.” The word “praise” is mentioned 13 times in the 14 verses of the Psalm. The Psalmist has a very clear message for us. He wants us to praise the Lord! As Christians, we know of many reasons to praise the Lord, both past,…
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This Sunday we celebrated our newest members, Larry and Julie. And it might have brought up a question for you, what does “membership” mean? The reason that churches have “members” comes from Paul’s equation of “people in the church” with “members of the body of Christ”. You can find Paul writing about this in I…
No one can deny the fact that we live in a dark world. It’s scary out there, and we in the church have a tendency to huddle together and stay inside. But our world doesn’t have to stay dark. Picture a dark room. It’s pitch black, until one person lights a candle. Then that person…
You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone. That was certainly true for me one morning. I had just gotten out of the shower, and I was drying my hair. My towel was over my head and my eyes were closed. When I finished drying my hair and took the towel away, I opened…
The week before school starts at Florida State is what we commonly refer to as “Go Week.” We spend a lot of time running: running to and from the Baptist Collegiate Ministry center where we cook the meals, running to and from the dorms where we’re helping students move in, running to and from Sam’s…
This past Sunday, I repeated the term “Choose Life” a bunch of times because it fit with where I was going with the sermon for Easter – that we make choices about what we reject as “unlife” so that we can have a more pure experience of “Life-life”. But when it comes to our choices,…
By Campus Missionary Mary Rowley If there’s one thing church ladies are good at, it’s talking. Enter any church on any given Sunday and you will probably witness some chattering women. I’m not saying this to make fun – well, maybe I’m making fun a little. The point is, the wonderful ladies who fill up…
Mary Magdalene went to Peter and John on Easter morning. Presumably, she didn’t go to them and ask, “Will you please come with me to the tomb, and then go home without saying anything?” But that’s what they did. After Peter and John witnessed the fact that Jesus’s body was no longer there, they returned…
This idea is commonly used on crime shows. The police have to exhume a body for a case they’re working on. The medical examiner warns, “This has been in the ground for ten years. Expect the foulest of foul stenches.” Everyone holds their noses as the casket is opened, only to discover that the body……
Today’s portion of Psalm 118 begins with this: “Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord” (verses 25-26). Sound familiar? It should – these same words were cried out by the crowds on Palm Sunday, celebrated just a few…