A pastor friend told me once about an experience he had as a seminarian visiting the church of a friend of his who happened to be a pastor’s son. Everyone in the service seemed enraptured by the sermon which had this refrain of “this is the day!” At the end of the service everyone left…
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Posts from March 2018
Holy Week starts this Sunday with the celebration of Palm Sunday (11am) and continues with Maundy Thursday (7pm), Good Friday (7pm), and finally with the celebration of Easter Sunday (11am). The theme of our Holy Week this year is “the Heart”. This whole year we are talking about the reality that “We are the Body,”…
The epic synthesized trumpets, the sultry licks of the electric guitar, the quiet percussion of the tapped cymbals in the background. It can mean only one thing – the “Rocky” training theme song. It’s probably playing in your head right now as you think about it. If it’s not, treat yourself by opening YouTube and…
Are you in trouble? Everyone’s in some kind of trouble: financial trouble, personal trouble. Maybe you have a troubled past. Whatever the nature of your trouble, the reason you have trouble is sin. Sin results in a troubled life for everyone. It’s the reason we wander, the reason we faint, the reason we sit in…
I don’t know about anyone else, but I confess, I’m not very good at praying. It seems that all Christian leaders encourage prayer. I’ve heard a lot of them say how we should not just pray, but pray with confidence, informally, as a child talking to their father. Some even say that we should claim…