My Mom always said she wanted to be buried with a fork in her hand, because at every church pot luck, someone would say, “Keep your fork, the best is yet to come.” We often talk about Christian hope, but we have trouble defining it. In common use, “hope” is either as an emotion— “I …
Category: Hope
Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken
I’m in a study in the Upper Room Discourse or what I prefer to call the Farewell Discourse in John 13-17. As I work through the end of John 15 with the challenging warning of the coming persecution, I heard this beautiful hymn. The focus is the full salvation yet awaiting. “Yet how rich is …
When words are shallow
when words are shallow when the cruelty of death is felt but words are shallow when people leave but the pain lingers when the time passes and life goes on but you wish the world would stand still when others can begin to smile but you still hurt when words are shallow but a person’s …
Story behind, “Carol of the Bells”
A summary of the story (see the video for a retelling of the story) One of America’s best known poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), contributed to the wealth of carols sung each Christmas season, when he composed the words to “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” on December 25th 1864. As with any composition …
Playlist for times of trouble
I’m preaching a couple of messages from the beginning of James. (You can listen to the first here.) Here are a few songs for those times when you are experience difficulties and need to keep trusting God.
It is Finished!
Our hope—one day we will be with Him
He has Risen–The hope of life now and forever. by Relevant Revolution