It can freeze you in your tracks. Or it can make you run like the wind. It makes some babble on and on, while others will not be able to say a word. It can give you that gnawing sensation in the pit of your stomach. Or it can simply feel like a dead weight…
About three weeks ago, I spoke at a funeral for one of our church members. Today I do the same. There’s no doubt that death is real. We see it all around us every day, and with good reason the Apostle Paul called death an “enemy” (1 Corinthians 15:26). But that’s not the topic for…
It was a footrace. The anxious excitement probably lent extra speed to their sandaled feet. Mary Magdalene’s news of the missing body startled them and shook them out of their grief-induced stupor that saw them huddled with the other disciples in a closed room. So Peter and John just had to see for themselves. John…
It has stayed with me like a song that gets stuck in your head. It’s a phrase that has and really should permeate and dominate my thinking. And come to think of it, it is a song, or at least part of a song, that’s stuck in my head – it’s from hymn #23. Mostly…