I often spend a lot of time reminding my people that Jesus’ resurrection is a historical and verifiable […]
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Why are you looking for the living among the social media posts, elected leaders, political parties, Hollywood heroes, […]
He is Risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! But, you know…not everyone believes this. Despite the fact that […]
The journey of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit is an exciting one…dwarves, trolls, dragons, and treasure, with a […]
Our Lord seems to have had a strange relationship with death. Often the way he acted around it […]
I love The Incredibles. Yes, I’m a woman in my 30’s, and I still unapologetically enjoy many animated films, especially ones that give […]
I do daily devotions through my Facebook feed I pray the RealClearPolitics and study the New Republic I […]
Eddie Van Halen died. Facebook is flooded with pictures of him hammering the neck of his guitar with […]
Everyone is up in arms in some way. We all probably have friends on every side who have dug in their heals, marked out their enemy, and are hunkered down at war. Over what? Over whether this whole thing is a hoax or the Black Plague. Or we are up in arms about our neighbor biking without his mask or the government conspiring to rob us of all our rights. I get it.
Every year on the Sunday after Easter, we read from John chapter 20 and hear again the appearance of our resurrected Lord to His disciples. Every year, whether it is in the midst of a pandemic and you are watching church from your living room or you are sitting in church with your family, we get caught up in the story of doubting Thomas and his desire to poke around in the holes of Jesus’ hands. It is a powerful text, from which we get perhaps the greatest confession of faith ever spoken.