Easter
I realize that Easter is over, but here's the Easter sunrise sermon I preached at 6:30 AM last Sunday. The setting for our community sunrise service is spectacular -- the Owen's Farm. The high hill where we stand faces east, and looks out over a
Acts
I'm preaching from Acts 10:34-43 for Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009. I hope you have a wonderful Easter and that the story of Jesus is told in new and powerful ways in every church on Easter Sunday morning. He is risen. He is risen indeed! He Is
church attendance
Here's a simple Easter outreach idea that works. In February, 2007, I wrote the first post on this idea we used in Atlanta ("This Easter Outreach Idea Works"). One church tried it last year, and it still works. Read Pastor John Carmichael's report (Easter
Culture
Time magazine and other media outlets are reporting on a tablet of stone inscribed with ink that might contain a pre-Christian resurrection story. Or it might not, depending upon what scholar you listen to. The tablet, called Gabriel's Revelation by archaeologists, may contain lines that hint that a
Acts
Here's the sermon I'm preaching this Easter from Acts 10:34-43, another lectionary reading for this Easter Sunday. I hope your Easter celebration is glorious! He is risen! Now We Understand Acts 10:34-43 34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it