Death Is The Prerequisite To Resurrection, The

The Reason Our Souls Hunger So Is That The Life We Could Be Living So Far Exceeds Our Strangest Dreams.

Normally, If Someone's Legacy Will Outlast Their Life, It's Apparent When They Die. On The Day When Alexander The Great, Or Caesar Augustus, Or Napoleon, Or Socrates, Or Muhammad Died, Their Reputations Were Immense. When Jesus Died, His Tiny, Failed Movement Appeared Clearly At An End.

If Ever There Were A True "just As I Am" Church, If Ever There Were A Community Where Everybody Could Bring All Their Baggage And Brokenness With Them Without Neat And Tidy Happy Endings Quite Yet, If Ever There Was A Group Where Everyone Was Loved And No One Pretended - We Could Not Make Enough Room Inside The Building.

Art Is Built On The Deepest Themes Of Human Meaning: Good And Evil, Beauty And Ugliness, Life And Death, Love And Hate. No Other Story Has Incarnated Those Themes More Than The Story Of Jesus.

Today, See Each Problem As An Invitation To Prayer.