So here’s the bad news: we are going to talk about sin for the next three weeks. Sin, as we will see throughout this series, is both messy and complicated. Sin is an easy subject when we are talking about your sin or their sin, but not so much when the topic is my sin. The good news is that Easter is coming. And Easter means that no matter how ba...
The bad news is that we are sinful as individuals caught up in a culture that sinful people have developed–intentionally or not. But as followers of Jesus and as agents of this Kingdom, one of our primary jobs is to give our sinful world tastes and glimpses of this new and better future....
Behind the actions of sinful individuals and institutions, unseen spiritual enemies are also gathering their strength and forces. We are caught up in this cosmic conflict and have an enemy. His name is Satan. For many of us, this spiritual dimension of reality is confusing and uncomfortable precisely because it is often beyond our awareness and und...
After Jesus' resurrection, the angels asked the women, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?" The 'good news' of the resurrection of Jesus overcame all of the 'bad news' of everything that led up to it. Those ladies went from believing Jesus was dead to believing He was alive. They went from having no life in them to being full of life. They ...