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The National Day of Prayer is an annual day of observance held on the first Thursday of May, designated by the United States Congress, when people are asked "to turn to God in prayer and meditation". The president is required by law (36 U.S.C. § 119) to sign a...
THE MODEL FOR PAINFUL CONTACT
Jesus renounced the joys of heaven for the sorrows of earth, exchanging an eternal immunity to the approach of sin for painful contact with evil in this world. He was born of a lowly Hebrew mother in a dirty stable in the insignificant village of Bethlehem. He became...
CAN A PANDEMIC BE A DIVINE JUDGMENT?
The following guest post is contributed by my brother-in-law, Clyde F. Bowie, Jr., a retired pastor. Scripture emphatically proclaims a God who is the summit and measure of all good. He is a loving God whose love transcends all our imagination in its depth and height....
A PHILOSOPHER’S REFLECTIONS ON PSALM 100
Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020), an English philosopher, wrote over 50 books on philosophy, music, art, wine, architecture, politics, literature, culture, sexuality and religion. He also wrote novels and two operas. He was awarded medals of honor by the Czech...
THE ANSWER TO FEAR
“We will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.” (1 Corinthians 15:52) After death we will be changed. Instantaneously. Neither the living nor the dead can take part in the Kingdom of God as they are. They must be transformed...
WHAT KIND OF BODY WILL WE HAVE IN THE RESURRECTION?
But someone may ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?’ (1 Cor.15:35) There is nothing that is more at variance with human reason than this article of faith. For who but God alone could persuade us that bodies, which are now liable to...
IS DEATH THE END? WHAT IF THERE IS NO RESURRECTION?
What is the faith of those who do not believe in resurrection after death? St. Paul addresses that skeptical objection. “Now if there is no resurrection…..” (1 Corinthians 15:29-34) He circles back to look at the alternatives to belief in the resurrection for there...
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
St. Paul has argued (1 Corinthians 15:1-8) that the main thing about the Gospel is that Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead. He cites as evidence that Christ appeared to hundreds of his followers after his resurrection. He notes that some people do...
THE EASTER MESSAGE
In the church it is easy to be distracted from our main message and to spend our times on other good things. Easter reminds us of the main thing. Wherever the apostles travelled they communicated to their hearers the main thing of the Gospel. You can analyze their...
HOLY SATURDAY MEDITATION
On Holy Saturday we remember what we affirm in the Apostles’ Creed, that after Jesus died he descended into Hell. It directs our attention to the period between the death of Jesus and his resurrection. What did he do, and where was he, in the days between noon on the...
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