There is probably no aspect of Christianity more difficult to accept intellectually than the bodily resurrection of Jesus. And one could hardly be blamed for approaching the idea with complete skepticism. It seems so much more plausible that the gospel accounts are speaking either metaphorically or just plain mistakenly. Perhaps the authors desired to have...
Category: Sermons
Life Wins or Why the Resurrection Is a Miracle, but Perhaps Not a Surprise (Sermon) – Easter 2012
One pastor’s not-so-creepy look at the God who is in the empty tomb business. The short version: Where there is God, there is life. And the message not merely of Easter, but of the whole biblical story, is that God is everywhere and always about his work. The empty tomb of Jesus was simply the...
My Only Comfort (Sermon) – Ash Wednesday 2012
Why I hate Ash Wednesday, the illegality of death in Irvine, and the comfort of Psalm 23.