The Corinthians understood they had been redeemed through Jesus, but like some disciples today, they didn’t grasp how wide-ranging that deliverance was. If you ask people today about their salvation many will tell you something to the effect of “my soul has been saved.” That’s gloriously true and worthy of the highest celebration—it just doesn’tContinue reading “The Range of Redemption”
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The Good News is not the Fake News
Fake news is something we’ve heard quite a bit about the last few years. Although the phrase is relatively new in terms of popular usage, fake news has been around as long as man has. It’s just been called by different names: propaganda, false narrative, disinformation, etc. Fake news can be serious. At the time of thisContinue reading “The Good News is not the Fake News”
The Death of Despair
After capturing Chattanooga in the spring of 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman pointed his troops toward Atlanta. Joe Johnson and his men met him in the mountains but were badly outnumbered. The fighting was fierce but Johnson’s line held. Then Sherman’s troops flanked Johnson’s on the southern side where the railroad was. Because the supply lines had to beContinue reading “The Death of Despair”
An Exalted View
David Blaine is an illusionist and stunt performer who has been in the public eye for a couple of decades. His most recent feat was to float upward to almost 25,000 feet while attached to over 50 large balloons in the Great Basin Desert in northern Arizona. As he was ascending, he spoke of havingContinue reading “An Exalted View”
The Resurrection and “Surprised by Hope”
Surprised by Hope (N. T. Wright), was published in 2008. I came across it about a year later and was so impacted by it that I immediately put together a series of messages on the resurrection and the profound truths that flow from it. It wasn’t that I didn’t have some understanding of these things prior toContinue reading “The Resurrection and “Surprised by Hope””
A Taste of Grace with Bruce Green 