In my first year of blogging there were some amazing days when posts got liked and shared and commented on. There were also days of slogging away with nobody looking in. Sometimes the problem was clearly bad timing: It was hard to lure in readers in the busy days of December, and if I posted […]
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My First Year in Blogging: Top Posts of 2013
I’ve now been blogging for a year! I’m very grateful to you, dear readers, for your interest. The numbers stun me: Well over 10,000 page views Visitors from 72 countries Most from the USA of course but hundreds from New Zealand Canada the United Kingdom Germany Finland How I wish I could know how you […]
Need Hope in Dark Places? Look at Jesus’ Descent into Hell
It is possible in a theological statement to get something quite wrong, and yet, at the same time, to say something good and true and helpful. In a way, that may be the only kind of theological statement we can make. I think that is what happens in Question 44 of the Heidelberg Catechism. (I’ve […]
Resurrection of the Body: This Is Not Your Culture’s Afterlife
Our culture goes two opposite directions on life after death. Both are a long way from Christian faith and hope. On the one hand we have sentimental universalism. It can be the soft-focus flowers and clouds of greeting card theology, trying to comfort the grieving. It can be stories of near death experiences in the […]
What Do You Hope For? Three Promises In Christ’s Resurrection
Years ago, when I was a pastor, I stood with a family who had lost a loved one — a husband, father, and grandfather. His widow, whom I’d not previously met, was overwhelmed. She hardly spoke in the week I saw her, so wracked she was by the pain of grief. It is hardly surprising. […]
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