“This is a day you are to commemorate… a lasting ordinance.” Our Lenten journey brings us to the Upper Room, but the story truly begins in the shadows of Egypt. As we gather for this Holy Thursday service, we look back to the first Passover—where the blood of a...
One of the church's special celebrations is Palm Sunday. The question is why? On this day everybody gets Jesus wrong – the Jewish leaders, the crowd, even the disciples. In the Gospel of John they call Jesus "the King of Israel." But isn't that a...
"It is finished." With this cry, the debt of sin is paid in full, and the Law’s demands are satisfied. In this midweek Lenten service, we meditate on the final breaths of our Savior. Drawing from the lament of Psalm 39 and the "stumbling stone" of...
The level of damage a Christian leader’s moral failure causes is almost incalculable. Because much of a pastor’s ministry is explaining God’s Word to his congregation, his words necessarily begin to carry something of a divine weight, and as a result the Christian...
Life is a gift from God. The mere fact that we have breath in our lungs today is a biological miracle—but for the Christian, there is a miracle even more profound. In Romans 8, the Apostle Paul declares the most comforting words a sinner can hear: "There is...
