Jesus Encounter: Lazarus (John 11)

MOTIVATE The Christian gospel is a unique message. Every other religious movement or idea has a founder or at least sparked by an individual that is now dead. Even if they were prophetically inspired by a divine being they have ceased to exist. Yet, not Christianity. Christianity is different in that it is not about…

Gospel Values: Evangelism (John 20)

  MOTIVATE Massive amounts of people organized, protested and sparked a revolution in the country of Egypt. It was largely organized through the social network of Facebook. In honor of Facebook’s role, Gamal Ibrahim gave his newborn daughter the same name, Facebook, to “express joy at the achievements [made in bringing about the revolution of…

Gospel: Cross and Resurrection (Mark 15 & 16)

A lot can happen in a week.[1] On Saturday Jesus is at Bethany. Mary breaks an expensive jar of perfume and anoints Jesus’ body. On Sunday Jesus arrives in Jerusalem. Crowds praise and sing “Hosanna” On Monday Jesus enters the temple and drives people out for making it a den of robbers and not a…

Upsidedown Living: Death (1 Thess 4:13-18)

I hope you have enjoyed this past week. God has blessed us with an absolutely gorgeous week. The sunshine has been refreshing, the warm air has stimulated our bodies to get outside, exercise and just have that extra motivation to get work done so that we can enjoy our weekends. Some of you have taken…