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We Are an Easter People
March 20, 2021 | By Andrew Forrester
So why all the doom and gloom? If our Lord and Savior really is risen, and our sins have really been forgiven, why should we be sorrowful at all? During Lent, our preparation for the joy we take in the day of the resurrection, should we not be joyful since we know what’s coming?
Howl
March 19, 2021 | By Jason Lee TD ‘22
Sometimes the good news does not feel like good news. My confession is that, sometimes, my faith redirects my daily resentments from an implacable universe to an impassive God. It is easier, sometimes, to believe our afflictions result from the wingbeats of several rather malicious butterflies than from the motion of a world watched by a loving deity. Many believers have told me that the former viewpoint is much lonelier than the latter.
What We Need
March 18, 2021 | By Hannah Turner BK ‘23+.5
This past year was not just different because I unexpectedly lived in my childhood home for 10 months. This past year was different because I was living at home as an earnest, believing, practicing Christian. I was not the child, the sister, nor the friend that people remembered.
Worship As Broken Flask People
March 17, 2021 | By Daniel Chabeda ES ‘21
All four biblical accounts of Jesus Christ’s life on earth contain the story of a woman who poured ointment on Jesus. The narrative starts at a dinner party in the town of Bethany:
Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany... So they gave a dinner for him there…
The Gardener and the Grower
March 16, 2021 | By Gabbi Zegers ‘21
“What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth… For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 3:5-6,11
Prone to Wander
March 15, 2021 | By Ashley Talton BR ‘23
Growing up in a traditional Southern Baptist church, I heard hymns played on the piano every Sunday. Although I tend to prefer modern Christian music, lately I’ve been remembering to appreciate the beauty of hymns that Christians have sung for hundreds of years.
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