Life's Inanities and Ironies

Oh, can you feel it? That holy hush before the dawn… the moment when heaven itself held its breath. If you are a conservative Christian who still trembles at the King James Bible , who clings to the old rugged cross, the blood that cleanses, and the literal, bodily resurrection of our Lord, then come with me to John chapter 20 .   We have wept through “that last week,” stood trembling in “that last night,” listened with aching hearts to “that final discourse,” and fallen on our faces at “that hour on Calvary .” Now—glory to God!—we stand at **that glorious morning**, the morning that shattered the power of death forever. The tomb is empty. The Lord is risen. And your heart was meant to be set on fire all over again today. Let the Word of the living God break over you like sunrise. 1. The Empty Tomb – “He Is Not Here” (John 20:1-10) Mary Magdalene stumbles through the darkness, her heart still raw from Friday’s horror. The stone is rolled away. She runs, weeping, to Peter and...

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. If you are a conservative Christian who still believes the old Book from cover to cover, who holds fast to the King James Bible , the blood of the Lamb, and the narrow way that leads to life, then these chapters are for you. We have walked with our Lord through “that last week” (John 12) and “that last night” in the Upper Room (John 13-14). Now we come to the final words of the Upper Room Discourse —John 15, 16, and 17—the sacred farewell of the Savior before He stepped into Gethsemane. This is holy ground. Jesus has just comforted troubled hearts with the promise of mansions and the way, the truth, and the life. Now He opens His heart even deeper: the True Vine , the coming Comforter , and the High Priestly Prayer that still echoes for every believer today. These are not suggestions for comfortable Christianity. These are marching orders for those who would abide in Christ in a hostile world. Let us hear the Word o...

In a noisy, distracted world, even sincere Christians can lose focus. Politics scream for attention, cultural battles rage, end-times charts multiply, and church programs multiply faster than souls are saved. Yet right before Jesus ascended to heaven, He gave His apostles one crystal-clear priority. That priority still stands for every blood-washed, King James Bible -believing fundamentalist today. Turn with me to Acts 1:1-8   > “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus , of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God : and, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem , but wait for the promise of the Father , which, sa...