Not quite a century ago, Louis Berkhof, Professor of Dogmatic Theology and president of Calvin Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan, wrote his Systematic Theology, which remained influential probably even into…
Here it is, two weeks later, and we’re still talking about Easter, bright with joy. Christ is alive! The tomb stands empty to the sky. It’s good to talk about…
I suppose, after the Christmas story, what we just heard is some of the most familiar Scripture. Writing under arrest in Rome, Paul tells the faithful in Philippi that “[i]t…
The resurrection—one of the essentials of the Christian faith. I’m not really sure that a person can properly call him or herself a Christian without believing in Christ’s resurrection and…
“[W]hen the sabbath was over” (16:1), the women bought what they needed to finish the unfinished burial rites. They couldn’t finish! The law made them unable to finish. The traditional…
I’ve been trying to take Mark’s account—what Peter told Mark—in order this year. Today, with our forty-day walk to Easter about to begin, I’m jumping ahead. Today is Transfiguration Sunday. …
Have you ever been put in jail? Wait—don’t answer! Well, if you have, I guess you know the awful feeling that comes with that clank as the barred door locks. …
“After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb” (28:1). They walk to the tomb as…
Have you ever been ready to put something off? Why do today what can wait until tomorrow. Our work doesn’t vanish. We go to sleep thinking about it; we…
Paul gives an overview of the life to which Christ calls us here and hereafter. Jesus speaks of himself as the way to the hereafter. Paul calls us to…