The Ties that Unbind

Last year when my community group read through John’s account of Jesus raising Lazarus, I saw the story with fresh eyes.  What I had never noticed before was that Lazarus came out of the grave completely alive, but still wearing his stinky grave clothes.   Jesus resurrected Lazarus, but then commanded his community to “go and…

Principal or Prince?

I'm sensing a theme.... I'm not even certain I can verbalize it clearly yet, but the reality that one day everyone will stand before the Creator has been popping up an awful lot lately. It's really not a new topic. I have thought about it often before: ME standing before the One who shed blood…