Easter is a time many churches see a slight rise in attendance. Whether it's people who feel some form of duty or guilt, or perhaps even curiosity, or any number of reasons, they come to just this one Sunday, or perhaps a couple more through the year. I don't say this to mock then, just to point out that it is a reality. When they come, they are confronted with difficult to understand things. A man rising from the dead? Now He is sitting at the right hand of God? What's all o

Many times, we want God to act openly, swiftly, and in a very obvious way. Yet, at times, it appears that God isn't actually doing anything at all. I don't mean that blasphemously or accusatorily, just that He works in ways that we don't see, and at times where all we do see is what is dark. Jesus was betrayed and brutally murdered upon a cruel Roman cross. His death, it would seem, marked the end of the road not only for Him, but for His disciples, and all of those who belie

Two thousand years ago, the world saw it's darkest day, the day that the Creator Himself was crucified by the hands if sinful men. If that's how the story ended, it would mark the worst news conceivable. But, it isn't where the story ends. As such, we have come to call this day good Friday. Though on one hand it was an atrocious act, hardly good; on the other, it accomplished the greatest work, God's plan of salvation. So in light of that, here is a post share from Ligonier