Easter is Yours

The resurrection means your ultimate problem is no longer ahead of you. The grave is not waiting for you. It is behind you.

Daniel Emery Price

04/03/26

Good Friday Reflections on Job

Job needs a savior, and he knows it. And in Jesus, he gets one.

Amy Mantravadi

04/02/26

Maundy Thursday and the New Command

On Maundy Thursday, Christ explicitly gave his disciples the new command from which the day takes its name, for the Latin words novum mandatum are the Vulgate’s translation of “new command.”

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Chad Bird

12/30/12

A few weeks ago, the pastor of my congregation did something in his sermon I’ve never heard a pastor do: he confessed a failure. He had once been ashamed of his brother, he admitted, and had acted in a way toward him that was not in keeping with love.

Chad Bird

11/21/12

Whiskey Baptism

A few people can endure a Job-like hell, get up, bless God, and face the future stronger than ever. Most of us aren’t such saints. We hobble along, half-walking, half-crawling into the will-be from the what-was.

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