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Stop Keeping Score

Perhaps you’ve been in my shoes when the bill is offered at a restaurant. Out of cheerful generosity, you consider paying for others. Yet you stop to think, “what have they bought for me, lately?”  Or, after navigating carpooling schedules with another family for swimming lessons, you calculate who has done more, so that you can make sure you’re even (or ahead). Or in marriage, you count the number of laundry baskets you’ve folded and dishes you’ve washed in comparison to your spouse. As if it’s a game, you keep the score. I am guilty of having these thoughts. And...

The Resurrection of Jesus Changes Everything!

Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! If the resurrection is true; if Jesus died and was buried; and on the third day the tomb was empty because He rose from the dead; and if He appeared alive by many convincing proofs; and, of course, if His body was never found because it could not be found because He rose from the dead – then the resurrection of Jesus is true, and this changes everything! It is true. He was resurrected, and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ does change everything. Here are seven simple but important...

Calm and Quiet in God’s Arms

Christians hope in the Lord because he rose for our justification, and we will follow in a resurrection like his. It is not death to die. But we sometimes feel like death. I speak of worry, anxiety, mental anguish, the pain of the mind that brings sickness to our bones (Prov 17:22). So today, I want you to hope in life and not die the death of a thousand worries. To do so, I want to discuss a short psalm of David, a king who had the physical, moral, and spiritual burden of ruling over Israel, a burden that crushed...

Why Good Friday Is Good

Every Good Friday confronts us with a question many people quietly carry: Why did Jesus have to die? Why the cross? Why this brutal, bloody, public, humiliating death? We sing the hymns. We hear the Scripture passages read. Good Friday can become so routine and familiar that we lose the wonder of it. We forget how striking Christianity’s central claim really seems: that the hope of the world hangs on a crucified man. John’s Gospel brings us directly into that scandal. Jesus stands before Pilate, accused by religious leaders, abandoned by many, and marched toward execution. Pilate declares him innocent....

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