“If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” We hear and dwell upon this good news
A new work of God in San Diego's East Village
A new work of God in San Diego's East Village
Sermons on Death
Craig shares a homily on this Ash Wednesday, kicking off the season of Lent where we practice dying.
Here we have our final stop in 1 Corinthians for the year, once again focusing on the issue of resurrection. We see that God is not done with this place or these bodies, and we should not have our eyes on escape, but instead place our hope in resurrection.
Paul brings our attention to the resurrection of the dead, and we are reminded that our hope is not to “go to heaven” when we die, but to experience bodily resurrection, like Christ.
Jumping to 1 Corinthians 15, Paul brings our focus to the bodily death and resurrection of Jesus.
We take a look at the long and wild journey of Absalom, who was close to successfully overthrowing the reign of David in a coup. We focus in on the idea of justice – what is true justice in the kingdom of God?
Jesus shows the disciples the wounds in his hands and the wound in his side, and when they see the wounds, they come to believe. We discuss trauma, grief, and what it means that in Jesus, woundedness has been made holy.
On this Easter Sunday we pronounce the good news that God has swallowed death forever!
In Psalm 51 we find a beautiful, confessional prayer that finds us in our need for mercy and cries out to God along with us.
Numbers presents us with a strange stories of snake attacks and salvation through a snake on a pole. We see how this gives as an image of the gospel, and how we can find our own salvation from sin in the crucifixion (and resurrection) of Jesus.