Resurrection Sunday has a way of pulling our attention backward — to the cross, to the tomb, to the grief of that first Holy Week. And while there is real meaning in remembering what happened, the message of the resurrection is ultimately a forward-facing one. The stone is rolled away. The tomb is empty. The […]
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There’s a lot packed into that title, and it starts with a confession. I almost missed Palm Sunday — which is a little embarrassing for a pastor to admit. Life has been moving fast lately. I’m in a leadership group with other community leaders, and I had been in a conversation with one of the
Back in the early 2000s, there was a show called Fear Factor. Three contestants would face a series of challenges — walking a plank suspended hundreds of feet in the air, getting into a box while thousands of roaches were poured over them, eating the most stomach-turning combinations of food imaginable. Some people looked at
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I had a friend growing up who struggled with a lot of pain in his body. His mom would take him to the doctor, and he would describe pain here, pain there — and the doctors couldn’t find anything. They ran x-rays, MRIs, all of it, and still came up empty. After years of testing,
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There is a lot of craziness going on in the world right now, especially in the Middle East. There are some really big things happening over there that you might not be hearing about, even if you know there’s a war going on. Iran is in shambles, although it’s still sending missiles. It is attacking
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Here’s something important to understand: God isn’t just watching history unfold. He planned it. Mapped it out. Accounted for every variable — including human stubbornness — and built contingencies into the blueprint centuries before the problems even arrived. That’s not a metaphor. That’s exactly what happened in Israel, and when you see it laid out
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