Today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43)
“Today”
Jesus makes a huge promise to the sinner next to him on the cross. Today you will be with me in paradise. Immediately. Instantly. Now. Not tomorrow. Not in a hundred years. Not in a in a thousand years. Not in a in a million years. Not at the …
If you have ever played the online game, text twist, then you will know that the objective of that game is to make as many words as you can from the letters provided. In this variation as an Easter game, the letters used are the letters in the word “Easter.” It’s great for those events when you need a “paper …
The evidence for Jesus’ resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.
Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg
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In his allegory “The Singer”, Calvin Miller gives insight into the supernatural war that was waged in those days from the cross to the empty tomb. The Troubadour (Christ) brings a song of love to the world ruled by World Hater (Satan).
Later, as the Troubadour is being tortured, World Hater cries out to God, ” ‘Look how he dies. …
The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: a virgin’s womb and an empty tomb. Jesus entered our world through a door marked “No Entrance” and left through a door marked “No Exit.” And for all who feel it is impossible to overcome the situations facing them—sickness, death, divorce, persecution, loneliness, despair, addictions—Jesus stands at the human door marked …
A pastor tells the following in the Augsburg Sermon Book for the year 1985
“I’ve never seen such a crowd in church, the woman exclaimed’. I didn’t know her, but apparently she was impressed by the number of people here for Easter worship. Then, as she was shaking my hand and moving toward the front door, she added, “Do you …
A little boy was attending his first wedding. After the service, his cousin asked him, “How many women can a man marry?”
“Sixteen,” the boy responded. His cousin was amazed that he knew the answer so quickly.
“How do you know that?”
“Easy,” the little boy said. “All you have to do is add it up, like the pastor said: …
“The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore—on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe … He was emphatically not a dull man in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.”
C.S Lewis…
One enterprising man asked the Lord, “Lord, how long is a million years to you?”
The Lord replied, “To me, a million years is like a second.”
The man asked, “Lord, how much is a million dollars to you?”
The Lord said, “To me, a million dollars is like a penny.”
The man asked, “Lord, may I have a penny?”…
“Somebody has well said that there are only two kinds of people in the world there are those who wake up in the morning and say, “Good morning, Lord,” and there are those who wake up in the morning and say, “Good Lord, it’s morning.”…