A few days from now I will have completed my goal of reading the entire Bible in a year. I have 4 days left on my Bible Reading Plan App, intuitively called "Bible." I say 1-year but it's taken me a year and a half to get here. Thankfully you can "catch-up" if you get behind and it resets things so you are not behind.
Read More“Not even his brothers believed in him” (John 7:5). And the Jews were divided over Jesus. “How does this man have learning,” they would say, “He has never even studied!” It seems like all were seeking him, but for several different reasons. Some wanted to learn from him. Some wanted to follow him.
Read MoreA few years ago my wife and I befriended a man that lived in a van outside a neighbor's house. His name was John and his van was on Aspen street so we called him John "Aspen." John was a strong atheist at that time in his life and was very aggressive at times to our help and my conversations with him.
Read MoreEaster weekend is filled with stories of miracles, life, Gospel, and the Lord’s Might. But what happened after that first Easter Sunday? Does this story of Might continue?
Read MoreGod has appointed two representatives for man--Adam and Jesus. The bible teaches that the lives of these two men deeply affect us. Actually, their deaths (spiritual and physical) deeply affect us as well. We’ve all experienced and continue to experience the effects of Adam’s sin.
Read MoreIn his classic book, The Cross of Christ, John Stott highlights the unprecedented and unparalleled violence of the cross. Examining the origins and practices of this barbaric form of capital punishment, he describes the cross as “the most humiliating form of execution.”
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