From Peculiar Speech, by William Willimon, Eerdmans Publishing, 1992, pp. 14-15 (edited). —————————– Romans 6:3-8 — Don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead […]
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I ran into someone the other day from out of town that I had not seen for a while. After agreeing that the weather was nice, and some more small talk, he said to me, “How is your dad doing?” I replied, “He is doing great.
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Above: The Road to Emmaus, 1877, Robert Zund, Swiss painter, (1826-1909) ———- Luke 24 tells the story of Jesus joining two men walking on the road to Emmaus, a little town about seven miles from Jerusalem. It was the afternoon of the day Jesus rose from the dead. These men had known Jesus,
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Cindy and Cathy are identical twins. Their parents were alcoholics and the girls had a dreadful childhood. Their dad died while they were still in high school when he rolled his car after a night of drinking. Their mother took an overdose of pills and died when the girls were away at
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Above: Tony Campolo, Baptist minister, college professor, author, speaker (1935-2024) **************************************** By Tony Campolo (see below) I’m an Italian, but I belong to an African-American Church in Philadelphia. People sometimes ask me how a white guy like me ended up going there. I tell them it is because at that church they are
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(…continued) Nothing can transform our whole way of thinking about everything more than the resurrection of Jesus, where death was turned into life. Death, that inevitable and final obliteration, was transformed from the end of everything into a new beginning. “Set your hearts on things above,” says Paul, and then, “When Christ, who is
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Pictured above: German POW in Russia, 1945 —————————— It was 1945 in Moscow. World War II was finally over, and the German prisoners of war had just been released. Russian soldiers were marching them through the streets to the Moscow train station. There they would be loaded into box cars and taken back
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Funeral for a young man killed after a driver did not stop for a red light. Just ten days ago today, Rick woke up to a normal morning on a normal day. He dressed for work, had breakfast, kissed Kathy good-bye, got in the car, and headed to the office. He had a green
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From my funeral sermon for Grandpa Harold, 1989. ******************************************* 78 years, two months, and 26 days; those are the words I just read in the obituary. A good, long and full life, we might say. I, for one, hope to get 78 years. But if I do get to be 78 years old, will
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Matthew 7:24-27 — (Jesus said), “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the
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