Monthly Archives: April 2016
Though it amazes us when God spins the straw of sin into the gold of redemption, we have to guard against this point getting twisted. On the one hand, Paul reminds us: “Some people are actually trying to put such words in our mouths, claiming that we go around saying, ‘The more evil we do, the more good…..
At times, people have asked me, “Why would anyone found a religion on someone’s especially gruesome murder? If Jesus were really God’s Son, why would God force Him to face and suffer such a painful, ignominious death – especially if He always had the power to avoid it?” This reality was dire enough to…..
We all know the headline of Easter: Christ is risen! I wonder if people who show up in church just for Easter are looking simply to be reminded of the good news that we can go to heaven when we die.
But the message of Easter is more nuanced than that. When someone you love…..
Last week I posed the question: Why do people come to church for Easter and then not return?
I noted Easter represents a complicated story – not one you can fully appreciate from the scripture reading or sermon you’d hear in a single Easter worship service. But the story itself…..