Pastor Prince

Historians say that our country is more divided than it's been since the 1850s, the years preceding our Civil War.  Christ followers have the opportunity to heal this divisions.  Sadly, we've been busy adding to them! Beginning in the 1970s and '80s in our country, evangelicals turned from the proclamation of the good news of Christ to engage in political activity.  The Moral Majority was the largest and most visible manifestation of this.  The culture war was on! What did this culture war bring?  Today, our culture is more liberal than when the war began!  Worse, many people in our country associate evangelicals with partisan political activity instead of gospel proclamation.  On top of that, Democratic and Republican Christ followers are rarely members of the same church. Jesus worked amid deep political tensions.  Though people pressured him to be a political leader, he refused.  Instead, he called people to a kingdom that transcended all the kingdoms of

We think of the resurrection of Christ as many things, including the most important event in history!  But we don't often think of it as a sign.  Yet Jesus said it was.  John 2 records that after Jesus ran the merchants and moneychangers out of the temple, Jewish leaders demanded that he give a sign that he had the authority to do what he did.  Jesus said that his sign would be, "Destroy this temple, and after three days I will rebuild it."  At the time, no one other than Jesus understood what he meant.  But later, after his resurrection, his followers understood. So what does the sign mean?  The Jewish leaders believed their authority came from God. They authorized the merchants and moneychangers to do their business in the temple.  Jesus was claiming that his resurrection would show that his authority was greater than theirs because he was Lord.  This gave him full authority over what went on in his Father's house. The idea of Jesus' Lordship in

I hate death.  It seems God does too.  The Bible has nothing good to say about death. "If you had been here, my brother would not have died."  These words from Martha in John 11 reflect much of the anguish we feel about death.  Is God present when death occurs?  What has he done or what will he do about death? Martha, Mary, and Lazarus were Jesus' close friends.  He had been their guest in their home.  Yet when he got the word that Lazarus was gravely ill, he lingered where he was a couple of days.  When he finally arrived in Bethany, Martha went out to meet him, and made the statement above.  Then she said, "But I know that even now God will do what you ask."  When Jesus said that her brother would rise again, Martha said in resignation, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."  But what about now?  She missed her brother! Jesus stunned her by saying, "I am the resurrection and the life."  Though this state