Category: Columns
Gospel-motivated love
by Mathew Block “He is not here. He is risen!” This is the Good News of Easter: Jesus Christ died, but He did not stay dead. He bore our sins, suffered the punishment we deserved, and three days after He was laid in the tomb,…
Recount the deeds of the Lord
by Peggy Pedersen “Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you” (Mark 5:19). There has been a lot of attention paid recently to journaling, recording family history, and scrapbooking of…
A well-spent Lent
FROM THE ARCHIVES: by Victor Parachin and Ian Adnams “It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually,” observed the British mystic Oswald Chambers. In earlier times, Christians, especially monks, nuns and others living in church institutions practiced various spiritual disciplines. They believed their work…
Praying for Outreach Eyes
by Robert Bugbee “I have many people in this city” (Acts 18:10). Jesus came in a vision one night and said it to His servant, St. Paul. He knew this man needed to see something his eyes were missing. Paul was in Corinth as a…
A little more Gospel
by Mathew Block If there’s one thing that history makes clear, it’s this: there is no era in which the Church can simply sit back and conclude: yes, that’s it. We’ve expanded all we need to on the Christian faith. Everyone is in agreement. Nothing…
LCC on the Road: Haitians working together
by Robert Bugbee Dear friends, I write these lines on a bright, warm Monday morning from Gonaives in northern Haiti. I am making a very quick “get acquainted” trip here together with Rev. Dr. Albert Collver III. He is the Director of Church Relations and…