We live in a world where dead people have come back to life. I’m not talking about video games, or zombie movies, or horror novels, or adventure fantasies. I’m not even talking about a resuscitation on an operating table. On this planet that we live on, there have been people who have really died, been buried, […]
theology
For Christendom: Overcoming the Spells of Dark Magic in our Society
There was a time in my life where I bought the line of thinking that said it was better for American Christianity to die so that Christianity could really thrive in persecution or total secularism. That was dumb. In Russell Moore’s book Onward he talked about how the cultural Christianity in the Bible belt of […]
Christ’s Strange Ways of Glory in Human Sickness; John 11:1-6
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness […]
Why the Father Loves the Son; John 10:17-21
17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.” 19 There was […]
The Good Shepherd; John 10:11-16
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the […]