Wednesday is for Prayer I’m beginning my own preparation for Lent and Easter today, two weeks before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, February 13. I want my heart to be broken again by the magnitude of my sin and need for a Savior, so that the wonders of Passion Week and the glories … More Prayer Preparation for Easter
Weekend Musings For the last few days I have been carrying on a correspondence with and atheist/skeptic off line. He contacted me via email and the banter began. It has been fun and I might post the full correspondence thread some time in the future but in my research to answer some of his questions … More N.T. Wright and the Power of the Resurrection Witness
Friday Musings My friend Phil Gioja at Center Street Productions has been doing some more creative work on a message I gave on Easter Sunday. We talked together about losing my image (the video) so that the words could be more useful to other churches. Here’s what he came up with. Good work Phil.
The tomb is empty. It has been empty for almost 2000 years. It will be empty for eternity. He promised he would rise and today we celebrate that he kept and will keep every promise he ever made to his people.
Holy Saturday must have felt like the longest day of their lives. But Sunday was coming.The sunrise of the third day was approaching.The tomb was still full, but not for long. More, see The Silent Saturday Between Horror and Glory.
Weekend Links Short list of links. Good ones though!. Have a great celebration of the resurrection this weekend. HE is Risen! HE is Risen Indeed. Engaging with Culture and Politics Obama Budget is Defeated 414-0! (Mike Shedlock) The Lottery is a Suicidal Scam and Beneath the Child of God (John Piper) One Minute You Can’t … More Obama, the Lottery, ObamaCare, Five Reasons to Take a Nap; Atheist Conversion and more
Excellent video to prepare your heart for the reality and joys of Easter. Defending the faith for the joy of the nations. On April 9, A.D. 30, Everything Changed: N.T. Wright on Easter.
Tuesday is for Preaching All over the country, pastors are preparing two very different messages this week. Many will be preaching 3 to 7 messages in the span of three days. Some will be preaching on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. One set of messages will be filled with mourning over sin and … More Prayer for the Nation’s Preachers
Sunday Afternoon Musings I am in awe of the people of God down in here in Watseka, IL. Three weeks ago, I pitched an idea to them about taking the devotional book I wrote back in 2004 and doing something similar to what New Song Church in Bolingbrook had done. New Song had taken the … More In Awe of the People of God and their God
Weekend Musings Latest video is up. Phil Giajo did an amazing job filming, editing and posting this all in less than 11 hours. Great job Phil. May God use your efforts to reach many with the gospel this Easter season.And May God use the video to inspire other churches in what they might do to … More Experience the Passion of the Christ
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