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The cycle of nature repeatedly demonstrates resurrection to renewed life. Darkness turns to dawn. The new day begins. The ebb tide of the ocean turns and flows into fullness. The cocoon breaks open and the butterfly emerges as a different creature from its former...
JESUS DESCENDED INTO HELL FOR US
What did Jesus do, and where was he, in the days between noon on the first Good Friday, and his resurrection on Easter Sunday morning? What happens between death and resurrection. There is much conjecture about this subject, and many various interpretations of the...
HOLY COMMUNION
It was on Holy Thursday (AKA Maundy Thursday) of his last week that Jesus instituted his Lord’s Supper which has also become known as Holy Communion, the Eucharist or the Mass. It was his replacement of the Passover which was celebrated annually to remind the...
A MEDITATION FOR HOLY WEEK
Jesus said, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” (Mark 8:34). This is Jesus’s figure of speech for self-denial. Every disciple of Jesus is to ‘behave like a condemned criminal and carry his cross to the place of...
WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN?
What does it mean to follow Christ, to be his disciple? Jesus spent three years teaching his disciples what it meant to follow him. A disciple is a learner, and there is much to learn about being a Christian. Christianity is not just an intellectual system, not a...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (5)
Evangelism relates to people’s eternal destiny, and in bringing them good news of salvation, Christians are doing what nobody else can do. Seldom if ever should we have to choose between…healing bodies and saving souls…Nevertheless, if we must choose, then we have to...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (4)
What is the mission of the church? What is its purpose? Why does it exist? The church itself was seen in the Epistles to be God’s new society, the new community, the new creation of God. The very existence of the church, with the new life its members were living, was...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (3)
Our mission is described in the Acts of the Apostles as establishing the Kingdom of the Spirit of Jesus. First of all, there is The Promise of the Spirit in Acts 1. The main topics of our Lord’s instruction during the forty days between his resurrection and his...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (2)
The Great Commission has five versions. The most pregnant and the most neglected is John 20:19-23. The essence of Christ’s message is verse 21, ‘I send you.’ Jesus possesses universal authority to send all his disciples into the world. The nature of the mission is,...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (1)
Before The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren held conferences on The Purpose Driven Church, one of which I attended in Houston. There is often confusion about our mission. What are we about – our purpose? What is our message? When I arrived at the Chapel in 2000 I...
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