By Dan Lentz 1. As you’ve grown older, what has changed most about your personality? (Examples include: more mellow or tolerant now, more determined than I used to be, less patient than I used to be.) Why do you think you’ve changed? Read Luke 24:13-21, 28-35. 2. The two disciples on the […]
By Dr. Barry Thornton I was ministering to a church in northwest Indiana in the late 1980s. One afternoon, just before Easter, I received a call informing me that my good friend Hank Gora had received a muffled message from his sister that his mother had died. I quickly made my way to Hank’s […]
By Sam E. Stone This quarter’s theme, “Undying Hope,” focuses this month on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Many evidences confirm what took place. The account of the walk to Emmaus is noted briefly by Mark (16:12, 13), but is reported at some length by Luke. It took place on the afternoon of Resurrection […]
By David Faust I have a special appreciation for the early spring. Maybe it’s because I grew up on a farm. I like it when the sun melts away the winter chill. It refreshes my spirit when daffodils and crocuses pop through the icy grass—harbingers of even lovelier flowers soon to bloom. In Ohio […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr Last November I saw two movies that offered answers to the problems of pain and death and the possibility of life beyond death—answers many people today actually pursue (though these movies were fantasy films). But the answers do not satisfy. The Horror of Reincarnation I went to see […]
