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1. These Miraculous Events Prove the Perfect Unity of the Trinity

This weekend, many people celebrate Easter, which is the time of year that Christians are to pause and reflect on the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Even though we deserved the punishment due to ...

Created on 12 April 2017

2. Ché Ahn's First Encounter With Holy Spirit—and God's Extravagant Redemption

...  get. Although my father was a pastor, at that time I was totally disinterested in Christianity, and was experimenting with Eastern religions like Zen Buddhism. My compass was off, but I was hungry fo ...

Created on 12 April 2017

3. Why God Chose to Announce the Fulfillment of This World-Changing Promise With Darkness

As the birth of Jesus was announced by the light of the Star of Bethlehem, so the death of Jesus was announced by the darkness of Calvary (Luke 23:44-45). It is not likely that an atmospheric phenomenon ...

Created on 12 April 2017

4. If Jesus Can Restore Peter, He Can Restore You

One of the saddest parts of the Easter story occurred the night Jesus was arrested. His disciple Peter was stressed to the breaking point and fearful of the crowd. When the high priest's servant girl accuse ...

Created on 11 April 2017

5. Why Easter Loses Its Luster Without This Gospel Linchpin

... that the world's best news came from a graveyard. The Easter story is the linchpin that holds Christianity together. Without the cross and the Resurrection, the gospel crumbles like a house of cards. Wha ...

Created on 11 April 2017

6. What Jesus' Dying Words Can Teach Us About Heaven-Focused Intimacy

As our attention is drawn this month to the passion of the Christ, I've been reflecting on our Savior's final words spoken from the cross. By all accounts, Jesus didn't do a lot of talking. He was almost ...

Created on 11 April 2017

7. What Should You Give Someone at Easter?

I've often wondered why gift-giving happens at Christmas and not Easter. I know it's a tradition that goes back centuries, based on the Magi giving gifts to the Christ child. But, what greater gift-givi ...

Created on 24 March 2017

8. Charismatics Need to Focus on the Crucified Life

... , a particular emphasis during the weeks leading up to Easter. They call it "Lent," and there are probably charismatics who don't even know what Lent is. What a shame. It's good to focus on Christ's dea ...

Created on 14 February 2017

9. The Most Impactful—and Inexpensive—Gift You Can Give This Christmas

... . "Just at Christmas time, usually, and sometimes other holidays. Maybe Easter," she told me. We were the unusual September visitors. It had been months since strangers had stepped into their worlds,  ...

Created on 30 November 2016

10. Why These After-Easter Prayers Are So Important

... week after Easter. I don't remember where I heard this, but Billy Graham was once asked what was going through his mind as he saw hundreds of people respond by coming to the front after he had presente ...

Created on 31 March 2016

11. Gone : One Man, One Tomb, One Sunday

... ly why, or in what way. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was dead and buried, and then He was alive again. "Of course, He's alive," we think. "He was the Son of God!" This is the story of Easter every eight-ye ...

Created on 25 March 2016

12. 7 Pieces of Evidence for the Resurrection

"... to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death ..." (Phil. 3:10, MEV). The apostle Paul expressed that Jesus Christ's resurrection ...

Created on 25 March 2016

13. 3 Days Before Easter: 'Not My Will, but Yours Be Done'

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus knew what was coming, but He prayed to His Father anyway. Would God protect Him from an agonizing death on the cross? Luke 22:42 says that Jesus prayed, "Father, if You ...

Created on 24 March 2016

14. '... That Saved a Wretch Like Me'

As we approach Resurrection Sunday, each of us should take a moment (or maybe more) to reflect on what the grace given us by the cross means in our lives. We should take a moment to reflect on the person ...

Created on 23 March 2016

15. 5 Days Before Easter: 'Have You Received Him as the Lord of Your Life?'

During the final week of Jesus' life, Jesus continually told His disciples of the events that were soon to take place. Although the mood was solemn, the disciples still didn't fully understand what they ...

Created on 22 March 2016

16. 9 Days Before Easter: You Can Have Victory Over Satan

Jesus' execution was a result of personal choice. He was not a victim of an evil empire, nor was He broken or defeated. And on the cross, there was never a moment when He was not in full control. In this ...

Created on 18 March 2016

17. 10 Days Before Easter: Who Really Killed Jesus?

The question is still asked in Israel today: "Who killed Jesus? Was it the Roman soldiers who drove the nails into His hands and feet and raised a cross where He hung until He died? Was it Pontius Pilate, ...

Created on 17 March 2016

18. 5 Ways We Can Use Easter to Evangelize

Why do we celebrate Christmas more than we celebrate Easter? We spend an entire month decorating our homes, singing special Christmas songs about Jesus, giving gifts in His name, and why do our yards light ...

Created on 15 March 2016

19. 12 Days Before Easter: Ask for the Gift

The night before He was crucified, Jesus told His followers that they would do greater things on this Earth than He had done. To accomplish those things, He told them to wait for the gift that God had ...

Created on 15 March 2016

20. What Moved Jesus to Weep

We view the Passion narrative with hope, knowing the "rest of the story," as Paul Harvey would say. However, the women and disciples who went to the tomb that first resurrection Sunday were overwhelmed ...

Created on 10 March 2016