Affliction is real, especially right now in ways that are seen and unseen. But it is our God’s work of love and consolation that offers rays of resurrection hope about what tomorrow could look like with God’s help. We may feel that comfort today, but we can never forget we are bound to our neighbor’s affliction. And until such a time when affliction is gone, we are all in this suffering together.
Read More[In 1 Corinthians 15] we get a taste of the lawyer side of Paul. His legalistic tendencies come out, as he makes a case for the people of Corinth to believe in not just Jesus’s own death and resurrection, but also their own resurrection. Like so many people before them, and people after them, the Corinthians are unsure about just what happens when perhaps the one common human experience finds us—death… But believing in their own resurrection—that one was harder to hold on to.
Read MoreTime and space are strange right now. You may mislabel days or forget what day it is altogether. You work, play, socialize, and worship from home. It can be difficult to separate the space and time for God. The disciples show us by example that it can be done, and that God reveals Himself in many and wonderful ways.
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