The Moment After Our Friends Say We Are Dead

J. R. Miller
Glimpses of the Heavenly Life
1908
No earthly language is adequate to describe the blessedness, the joy, the happiness of heaven!  Perhaps no human word gathers and holds in itself so much of the truest meaning of heaven—as the word “home”. Home is a place of love. It is a place of confidence. We have [...]

Decatur

I had a Sufjan Stevens hankerin’ so I found this video to a track from his Illinois album.  Enjoy.

Resurrection Sunday

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.  Take in the beauty of the crucifixion and resurrection of our savior Jesus Christ.

Acts 16:25-32
25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, 26 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were [...]

Music Using Only Sounds From Windows XP & 98

On the Physical Death of Jesus

Written over 20 years ago and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, this article goes into graphic detail about the physical pain that Jesus would have endured in his beatings and crucifixion–which pales, of course, to the spiritual and emotional pain of bearing the wrath of his Father on behalf of God’s [...]

Passion Week Geography and Harmony

Here is something you might find fruitful while contemplating the events leading up to our Savior’s death and resurrection: an attempt in Google Earth to show the locations of the major events (to the best of our knowledge) along with descriptions and biblical passages describing those events:

The KML file lets you interact with this map [...]

2008 Resurgence National Conference: Text and Context

On February 25-27, 2008 Resurgence hosted the National Conference titled Text & Context at Mars Hill Church’s Ballard Campus.  You can click the links below and watch the video of 3 main sessions.
Mark Driscoll: Putting Preachers in their Place
C.J. Mahaney: Pastoral Character & Loving People
John Piper: Why I Trust the Scriptures

Exegetically Strong!

My Grace Is Sufficient For You

J. C. Philpot, “Strength Made Perfect in Weakness”
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in your weakness.”  2 Corinthians 12:9
Not your strength,
not your wisdom,
not your prayers,
not your experience;
but “My grace”—My free, My matchless grace, independent of all works and efforts, independent of everything in the creature—flowing wholly and solely, fully [...]

Mega-Church Pastors of Genius