Theme:  the difference between doubters and nonbelievers.
    
On the one hand, we experience the grandest event in human history when god raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead; and within that story of that exquisite event, we see the lurking of doubt in the shadows.
Doubting Thomas has a certain appeal to all of us [...]

Theme:  Retraction!  A mistake in the Obituary! 
                                    If Jesus would have had a funeral, and if there had been newspapers in those days, his obituary would have been listed in the Nazareth News, along with all the other obituaries, Section E, page seven. It would have been listed under the J’s e.g. [...]

Consider purchasing our HOLY WEEK images for visual illustration while the following Passion Story is being reenacted.
       
THE PASSION STORY
(Seven people are needed for the parts in this play:  Narrator, Jesus, Pilate, High Priest, Crowd Leader, plus bit parts by two others. The two other people with the “bit parts” read the [...]

Theme: Kings and kingdoms come and go, but you can’t kill this King.
     
In the madness of the morning, you may not have heard it.  In the kaleidoscope of craziness, you may not have heard the refrain.  In the midst of the circus and the carnival, you may not have heard those words repeated [...]

Theme: a dying seed results in new life.
It seems just yesterday, but it wasn’t.  We went out on a family picnic.  We went out to one of these lovely state parks; and the water was so green, so blue green as it is around here on the high mountain streams.  The water came tumbling [...]

Today I would like to focus on a small, two-lettered word that is used very often.  it is a word that we often use to express intensity of feeling.  It is the word “so,” spelled S. O. It is not “sew” spelled S.E.W like sewing a button on a shirt. The word we are thinking [...]