Today millions will gather in churches across the country for Easter. Some will go for Easter Egg hunts or other special events. Hopefully most will go to remember the premier miracle of Jesus. Yes, He opened the eyes of the blind, gave the lame the ability to walk and fed thousands miraculously but the greatest sign of the ministry of Jesus is the Resurrection. No one else has ever predicted thei...

Across the country millions will celebrate Good Friday, the somber reminder of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. What are the messages of this sobering day?One, the first message of Good Friday is the seriousness of sin. Sin is brutally deadly. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. There can be many faces of this death. If you steal from your company, the wages of that sin could be ...

In Fairbanks many of us enjoy the Golden Days Parade put on by the local Chamber of Commerce. It’s the largest parade in Alaska with about 100 floats and celebrates Fairbanks gold rush history. Various organizations and local politicians put together floats. Thousands line up the streets to cheer them on.The parade makes me think of another celebration that happened two thousand years ago in Jerus...

The world of the sisters Mary and Martha came crashing down. Their beloved brother Lazarus was deathly sick. They had sent word to Jesus, the miracle working Messiah, their good friend, but for some reason he did not come. Lazarus died. Jesus was absent. The combination of negative emotions was overwhelming—shock, disappointment and even anger with Jesus, sadness, and crushing grief. Most of you k...

In John 6 there is a remarkable story that is told about Jesus feeding a crowd of thousands. He takes a kid’s lunch and turns it into a miraculous buffet. Specifically feeding 5,000 men, and who knows how many women and children? This is a stunning miracle that gives us several thoughts to grab hold of.One, for the Jewish crowd this miracle would have drawn their thoughts back to manna in the wild...