Easter Sunday is coming, which has a lot of people thinking about resurrection from the dead. Two Sundays ago, I preached on how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead after he had been dead (and smelly) for 4 days (John 11). This was the straw that broke the camel’s back for the religious leaders to […]
Why Lent?
When I was growing up, the only people I knew who observed Lent were my Catholic friends, who honestly, didn’t know or care much about Jesus in their daily lives from what I could observe. I remember they had to eat fish for lunch on Fridays in the school cafeteria. I once asked a friend […]
LENT!!!! Drinking Decaf for Jesus??? Say it ain’t so…
I originally posted this article a couple years ago and unlike most things I wrote from years ago, this is actually still pretty funny and on-point. As Lent nears, and as I prepare to give a sermon on Lent this Sunday, my coffee consumption is at an all-time high! (Seriously, my heart was pounding in […]