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Celebrate the Power

By: admin | Date: March 26, 2016 | Categories: quotes

I cannot give in to the devil’s principal, deceitful tactic which makes so many Christians satisfied with an “Easter celebration” instead of experiencing the power of Christ’s resurrection. It is the devil’s business to keep Christians mourning and weeping with pity beside the cross instead of demonstrating that Jesus Christ is risen, indeed. Reference:   Matthew […]

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He is Risen

By: admin | Date: April 22, 2014 | Categories: stories

The Good Friday service in Dampara Baptist Church, Chittagong, Bangladesh, was packed. Little children sat on the floor in the aisles and across the front of the church. Rows of people stood in the back, craning their necks to see the crucifixion scene as depicted in the “Jesus Film.” Weeping and gasps of unbelief could […]

Waiting for Final Resurrection

By: admin | Date: | Categories: devotional

The other two days have earned names on the church calendar: Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Yet in a real sense we live on Saturday, the day with no name. What the disciples experienced in small scale—three days in grief over one man who had died on a cross—we now live through on cosmic scale. […]

Has God Died?

By: admin | Date: April 18, 2014 | Categories: stories

Martin Luther once spent three days in a black depression over something that had gone wrong. On the third day his wife came downstairs dressed in mourning clothes. “Who’s dead?” he asked her. “God,” she replied. Luther rebuked her, saying, “What do you mean, God is dead? God cannot die.” “Well,” she replied, “the way […]

A Bunch of Easter Illustrations

By: admin | Date: | Categories: stories

It seems that some church members have been starched and ironed, but too few have been washed. First Pastor: I hear you had a revival. Second Pastor: Yes, we did. First Pastor: How many additions did you have? Second Pastor: We didn’t have any additions but we had some blessed subtractions. A Bad Day A […]

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He’s Back

By: admin | Date: | Categories: humor

Easter is a time for bunny stories. I have one. A woman happened to be looking out of the window of her home one day. She was horrified to see her German shepherd shaking the life out of the neighbor’s rabbit. Her family had been quarreling with these neighbors; this was certainly going to make […]