1. Have You Heard About the Hall

    book
    12/11/23
    9 mins
    By Wade Johnston
    God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
    Have You Heard About the Hall

  2. Death, Taxes, and Baseball

    book
    09/20/23
    16 mins
    By Blake Flattley
    We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
    Death, Taxes, and Baseball

  3. Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 4: Resurrection Mysteries

    book
    08/07/23
    23 mins
    By John Bombaro
    God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
    Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 4: Resurrection Mysteries

  4. Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 3: New Possibilities of Epistemology and Ontology

    book
    07/24/23
    24 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Only the resurrection of Jesus guarantees and facilitates divine presence and love to us as divine life for us.
    Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 3: New Possibilities of Epistemology and Ontology

  5. Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 2: Wittgenstein’s Resurrection Principle

    book
    07/17/23
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
    Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 2: Wittgenstein’s Resurrection Principle

  6. Resurrection Life for Resurrection People

    book
    07/10/23
    18 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
    Resurrection Life for Resurrection People

  7. If Christ has not been raised, the Dead in Christ are Lost

    book
    04/12/23
    10 mins
    By Ken Sundet Jones
    If it’s all a fiction spun by disappointed disciples, if it’s a mere symbol for the idea of an inner awakening, if it’s not a fact that Christ has been raised, then our grief and loss have no end, and we have no hope.
    If Christ has not been raised, the Dead in Christ are Lost

  8. I Don't Want Eternal Life, It's Too Long

    book
    01/27/23
    20 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
    I Don't Want Eternal Life, It's Too Long

  9. As We Wait for Them

    book
    11/25/22
    10 mins
    By Wade Johnston
    While the world is full of horizons and endpoints, for Christians, there is always tomorrow, and there are people in that tomorrow waiting for us as we wait for them.
    As We Wait for Them

  10. I wanted you to be here too

    book
    11/23/22
    14 mins
    By Laura Bauer
    We ache in eager anticipation as we see Christ in action and as we take in the snapshots of his life, death, and resurrection.
    I wanted you to be here too

  11. Preaching in the Twilight of the Church Year

    book
    11/12/22
    32 mins
    By John T. Pless
    That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
    Preaching in the Twilight of the Church Year

  12. Forgiveness without God

    book
    09/05/22
    10 mins
    By David Clay
    Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
    Forgiveness without God
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