Doing Visitation
Chris Surber is an Energion author, pastor, and missionary.
Chris Surber is an Energion author, pastor, and missionary.
I want to link to a post from 2014, which has a message worth repeating: Christ Has Died. Here’s a short note from William Powell Tuck’s book The Church Under the Cross: To remove the cross from Christianity is to destroy the Christian message. The cross is at the center of our message about Christ….
The cross reveals the fullness of Jesus’ love for humankind in all its ambiguity and sin. Willing to embrace his destiny as God’s beloved child and healer, Jesus faces the agony of Calvary. He did not want to die, nor did he wish to suffer excruciating pain. Still, Jesus placed his suffering and abandonment in…
Our current editing work on books to be released in the next month is very rich with thoughts for Pentecost Sunday. In each case, page numbers are from the advance reader copies and may vary slightly in the final edition. First, from Unfettered Spirit: Spiritual Gifts for the New Great Awakening by Bob Cornwall, pages…
The book they are discussing is The Character of Virtue: Letters to a Godson. You can find more of Allan’s books on his Energion author page.
The new creation brought about by love, under whose control Christians live (2 Cor. 5:14), is not an amorphous conglomerate of passive robots who do God’s will en masse. The Christian life of the new creation is not the boring life of an idealized perfection on this earth. It is the exciting life of taking…
This week we’re going to post a series of quotes and notes here from our authors regarding hope. Holy Week in the Christian calendar is a time both of expectation and trial, of hardship and hope. There is the joy of Palm Sunday which turns out to be temporary. The friendly crowd is nowhere to…