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The Ascension of Jesus is celebrated on the 40th day after Easter Sunday (Acts 1:4). Because it is always a Thursday it tends to be overlooked and neglected. Yet the Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of his earthly life. It confirms his identity, and speaks to us...
PERSONAL HISTORY
Recently I came across this quotation from Soren Kierkegaard: “Man’s eternal dignity consists in the fact that he can have a history, the divine element in him consists in the fact that he himself, if he will, can impart to this history continuity, for this it...
THE JESUS PATTERN FOR MINISTRY
“Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.” (Matthew 4:23) As I reflect upon the ministry of Jesus, my own ministry and the ministry of the church and...
WHY SHOULD ANYONE WANT TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN?
“Why should anyone want to become a Christian? The reason will not be primarily intellectual. The most basic decisions we humans make about the direction of our lives are always rooted in what we care most deeply about. To become a Christian a person must care about...
MAKING DEATH HARMLESS
Through Jesus Christ the Christian receives the certainty of eternal life. Jesus Christ is the Savior from death, and faith in Him is already the beginning, the dawn of Eternal Life. Even Christians must die. But through Christ this death has lost its sting, for...
THE CONFESSION OF A STRUGGLING ATHEIST
Daniel Jupp is a British author and political commentator with a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter. I admire his candor and his unflinching analysis of recent events in the UK and the world. In a recent column in his blog Jupplandia he explains his lack of Christian...
HUMANITY’S PROBLEM AND SOLUTION
The Christian message of the reconciliation and redemption of mankind contains, as its negative presupposition, the doctrine that man, who has been created in the image of God, has set himself in opposition to his origin, and that it is this opposition which...
REASONS TO DOUBT
The book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible expresses the skepticism of a life that has seen most things, and finds it hard to make sense of it all. The more we know about life, the more cynical we can become. We may have more, rather than less, unanswered questions as we...
THE CAUSE OF ALL THE CHAOS IN THE WORLD
What is Man? This question is the point at which the passionate interest of men and the divine message of the Bible meet and come into conflict. Primarily, man regards himself as the natural center of his life and of his world. Even when in theory he thinks that he...
WHY THE RESURRECTION IS IMPORTANT
When I was eleven years old my grandmother died suddenly at the age of fifty nine. Her death was shock to me. I could not understand how a person so vibrant and alive one moment could be gone the next. I can remember seeing her laid out in her coffin in her bedroom...
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