God Is Greater

Bonhoeffer wrote: “Happy are they who have reached the end of the road we tred and who are astonished to discover that grace is costly just because it is the grace of God in Jesus Christ…Happy are they who, knowing that grace, can live in the world without being of it…Happy are they who know […]

My friend Steve Mcvey posted this on his page and I just had to “borrow” it.  Talk about missing the tree because of the forest.  Sometimes we spend so much time trying to get the BIBLE right that we miss the whole purpose for the Bible – to reveal the love of God expressed through […]

Made a list the other day that the early (Book of Acts) church didn’t have: Sunday School, VBS (Vacation Bible Schoool), Women’s Groups, Men’s Groups, Church Budget, Church Council, Constitution and Bylaws, Sanctuary, Education Building, Fellowship Hall, Nominating Committees, Seminaries, Office Equipment, Personal Committees, Outreach/Evangelism Committee Church Secretary, Music Director, Custodial Staff, or (oh no) ANY […]

. In his treatise On the Incarnation, Athanasius wrote the following (italics mine): Thus, taking a body like our own, because all our bodies were liable to the corruption of death, He surrendered His body to death in the place of all, and offered it to the Father. This He did out of sheer love […]

I found this sermon for a friend from my last church and enjoyed remembering my friend – one of the most joyful fellows I have ever known.  Just had to share it.  Hope it is a bit of an inspiration. ————————- Burleigh Tatum once told me that if a person lives long enough, something would […]

I read this by a fellow named Jim Rogers.  Made me laugh.  We all need a laugh from time to time. When I was a senior in college, I had a chance to take an elective course.  I thought I’d take one in ornithology; that sounded rather interesting.  I learned something the first day: that […]

The resurrection of Jesus as act of God is a decisive event, a final judgment, which affects the entire state of human existence, the whole situation in which we have our being and as such affects every human being. It is this concentration of universal significance in the resurrection of Jesus that is so very […]