Earth Day is today, April 22. As Christians we need to spend time thinking about creation. The Bible, begins, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” After fleshing that out rather extensively, the writer says, “Then God said, ’Let us make man in our...
A picture is worth a thousand words. This saying was invented by an advertising executive, Fred R. Barnard. He took out an ad in Printer's Ink in 1921 with the headline “One Look Is Worth a Thousand Words” and attributed it to an ancient Japanese philosopher. He was...
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed. That affirmation and response will resound today, Easter Sunday, and throughout this Easter season. But we dare not forget what was going on in Jesus being condemned and hung on the cross. As I have reflected, two dynamics...
Sunday, March 28, was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. This is a week when Christians recall the events leading up to Jesus’ death by crucifixion and Resurrection. The week includes five significant days, the first being Palm Sunday, which commemorates Jesus’...
