Great List of Questions about Kids’ Sports and Church

I came across a great article filled with good questions for Christian parents to ask themselves about their various commitments to their local faith family (church) and to other entities such as kids’ sports teams (or replace team with “band” or “debate” or whatever…).  You can check out the full list of questions here, but [...]

Sabbath Psalm

I took note that this was a Psalm dedicated for use on the day of rest. Note the focus on God’s work and consider how that relates to our rest. Psalm 92 A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. 1 It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O [...]

Tozer on today’s church…

“Every age has its own characteristics.  Right now we are living in an age of religious complexity.  The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us.  In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.  [...]

Resurrection People…Day 8 and 1

“Resurrection is a Person” Your brother will rise again, Jesus told her. Martha said, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and [...]

Resurrection People- Day 7

“New Week, New World” “The resurrection of Jesus takes place, [John] is careful to tell us twice, ‘on the first day of the week’, and I believe this is best interpreted as the start of God’s new creation.  On the Friday, the sixth day of the week, Jesus stands before Pilate, who declares ‘behold, the [...]

Resurrection People- Day 6

“The Temple of Life” “Indeed, it would seem that he who disbelieves this bodily rising of the Lord is ignorant of the power of the Word and Wisdom of God.  If He took a body to Himself at all, and made it His own in pursuance of His purpose, as we have shown that He [...]

Resurrection People- Day 5

“Resurrection and Re-Creation” “The picture is not what we expected–though whether it is less or more probable and philosophical on that account is another question.  It is not the picture of an escape from any and every kind of Nature into some unconditioned and utterly transcendent life.  It is the picture of a new human [...]

Resurrection People- Day 4

“Resurrection and the Church” “If we leave him in the tomb we can systematize his teaching and sanitize his actions.  We can manage the church and keep things in order.  If we leave him in the tomb, then Christianity belongs to us to make of it what we will, to reform it in our image [...]

Resurrection People- Day 3

“Resurrection and Reality” “For the earliest Christians, to speak of Jesus’ resurrection was to speak of something that, however (in our sense) earth-shattering, however much it drew together things earthly and heavenly, was still an “earthly” event, and needed to be exactly that.  It had earthy consequences: an empty tomb, footprints by the shore, and [...]

Resurrection People- Day 2

“Resurrection and Hope” “Every year at Easter I get to preach on the Resurrection.  In my sermon I always say to my skeptical, secular friends that, even if they can’t believe in the resurrection, they should want it to be true.  Most of them care deeply about justice for the poor, alleviating hunger and disease, [...]