Here is a col­lage I made that is help­ful to me in med­i­tat­ing on John 13:1–18 and Jesus’ wash­ing His dis­ci­ples’ feet. LH

Liv­ing in Crazy Times Part 2  (click for slides)

Seven Rea­sons for Chris­t­ian Belief  (click to view)

As bul­letin arti­cles are nec­es­sar­ily sketchy, the fol­low­ing link per­mits a more detailed engage­ment along these lines:

God: The Best Expla­na­tion by Paul Copan   (See espe­cially the World­view Chart pages 103–104 in the chapter)

For those seek­ing a more aca­d­e­mic, schol­arly level engage­ment: please enjoy the arti­cles in The Black­well Com­pan­ion to Nat­ural The­ol­ogy (2009) edited by William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland.

Most of all, Pon­tius Pilate’s sit­u­a­tional ques­tion is everyone’s ques­tion:  What will I do with Jesus?   For those grap­pling with Jesus in His­tor­i­cal con­text, two help­ful, com­pe­tent, and open-minded schol­ars writ­ing in this area are N.T. Wright and Ben With­er­ing­ton.  And of course, there is noth­ing like read­ing the Gospels.

(Pho­tog­ra­pher unknown, but thanks for excel­lent pho­to­graphic perspective)

This Sun­day we con­sider Con­tent­ment.  One help­ful writer in this regard is Richard Fos­ter, who wrote the now clas­sic Cel­e­bra­tion of Dis­ci­pline, and fol­lowed that book with a detailed treat­ment of one spe­cific dis­ci­pline enti­tled,  Free­dom of Sim­plic­ity.  What fol­lows is a link to read an excerpt from the book, which has ben­e­fited quite a few folks in seek­ing first the kingdom.

Free­dom of Simplicity

Jesus prayed for the One­ness of His fol­low­ers.  Here is a poster I put together to illus­trate the mutual rela­tion­al­ity of discipleship.

Here is a well done chart from the Abide in Christ site with a highly plau­si­ble sequence of Jesus’ res­ur­rec­tion appearances.

Res­ur­rec­tion Appear­ances in Sequence (click to view)

RBC Min­istries out of Grand Rapids MI has pro­duced a well done doc­u­men­tary on the Res­ur­rec­tion of Jesus called, “10 Rea­sons to Believe in the Res­ur­rec­tion.”  It is part of their Chris­t­ian Courses on line and is offered in three seg­ments.   Please check it out and be encour­aged in qual­ity his­tor­i­cal rea­son­ing and bib­li­cal faith.  LH

10 Rea­sons to Believe in the Res­ur­rec­tion Lessons 1–4 (Click to view)

10 Rea­sons to Believe in the Res­ur­rec­tion Lessons 5 — 7 (Click to view)

10 Rea­sons to Believe in the Res­ur­rec­tion Lessons 8 — 10 (Click to view)

RBC Min­istries Website

Here are two slides from the Sun­day mes­sage on Romans 6 and walk­ing with Jesus in sanctification–being set apart unto Christ­like­ness. Lance

I recently found a delight­ful dia­gram that charts out where folks come out on their views of God.  It is by Cameron Blair who min­is­ters with the Fel­low­ship for Evan­ge­lism in the Visual Arts (FEVA) down in Australia.

Fel­low­ship for Evan­ge­lism in the Visual Arts (link)

The chart is offered here with Cameron’s permission.

What’s your World­view? (click to view)