‘It is Finished’: Christ’s Message from the Cross

Good Friday

The darkest day in history, nearly 2,000 years distant. A day when, at noon, the earth went dark. On this day, remembered throughout history as “Good Friday,” there hung three men on a cross, with a gathering crowd, suffering the most extreme version of capital punishment known to history. Each of them was considered guilty … Read more

Lost Cause to New Creation: How the Gospel Transforms the Hopeless

A man in his study with an open Bible.

One of my favorite things is good music. Any type of music, but I generally love music that seems to come from a sort of “inner growl” of the artist. One of those songs is “Save Me” by Jelly Roll. The rawness in his voice stirs something in the listener.  He sings, “I’m a lost … Read more

In the world, not of the world

“…they are in the world, and I am coming to you…I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of th world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from … Read more