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April 2009 Blog Posts (24)

Easter 10 The Resurrection and the Practice of Hope

Easter 10 Resurrection and the Practice of Hope

The Resurrection turns the world on its ear. When Jesus was resurrected it threw a monkey wrench into the machinery of the world’s standards, goals and strategies. Now there really is a demonstrable, focused image of God through whom we can decipher the unseen,--- the invisible spiritual dimension. Jesus is the visible ‘Rosetta stone’ enabling us to interpret and understand Creation and man’s place in it.

This is how Paul saw… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 30, 2009 at 10:02am — No Comments

Easter 9 Resurrection and The Challenge of Hope

Easter 9 Resurrection and The Challenge of Hope

Romans 8:

22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 27, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Easter 8 Resurrection, Hope and Faith

Easter 8 Resurrection, Hope and Faith

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.” (Heb.11:1 KJV)

“I hope I can be a better person… I hope I can find a decent place to work and live…I hope for my children’s future…I hope I can get through this awful experience I’m facing…”

“I hope we can grow…I hope we can meet people who want to be a part of us…I hope we can get the message across…I hope I can witness when I get in the midst… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 25, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Easter 7 The Resurrection and Its Deeper Implications

Easter 7 The Resurrection and Its Deeper Implications

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities---His eternal power and divine nature---have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” (Rom.1:20)

There are two universes, the physical and the spiritual. The physical force that holds the first together is called gravity. The spiritual universe is held together by grace. If we look at Scripture carefully… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 22, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Easter 6 Resurrection and Reality---Checking Out Our Worldview

Easter 6 Resurrection and Reality--- Checking Out Our World View

How we perceive and process what happens around us from our immediate contacts to the breadth of international affairs is our personal worldview. What we believe determines our worldview, which in turn determines our attitude and behavior.

The Resurrection of Jesus challenges every mind and heart to reconsider each and every concept in our worldview from His spiritual perspective in five… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 21, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

An Added Thought to Resurrection and Identity

An old Dean Martin tune came to mind, "Your Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You." It goes on to say that '...your nobody 'til somebody cares.' Folks, that is what the Cross of Christ was all about and what the Resurrection proves, God loves each one of us and cares for each one of us.

The recent Susan Boyle phenomenon sends a real message.in three ways.

First, her own words, I want to be a professional singer...like Elaine Page (a British stage star)." there is a yearning in each… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 19, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Easter 5 Resurrection---Now Everybody is a Somebody

Easter 5 Resurrection and Identity

If someone asked you, “Who are you?,” what would you answer?

I remember when I was in New York City at Spring Break my second year of seminary I happened to take a shortcut through a narrow passageway by a Broadway theater where a small crowd was standing. They seemed to be anticipating the arrival of some star. As I walked by what happened to be a stage door the crowd all looked at me expectantly until someone blurted, “Oh, he’s nobody!”… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 18, 2009 at 5:45pm — No Comments

Easter 4 The Resurrection and Why the Self-Conscious Moment is So Important

Easter 4 Why the Self-Conscious Moment is So Important

Eternal Life is a never-ending self-conscious present moment of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and all the family of God. That is what we are being prepared for. Jesus said before He was crucified, “I go to prepare a place for you that where I am you may be also.” Yesterday’s Cross is today’s way to be raised into the present which is our future. What we do with every present moment sets the stage for reconciling the world… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 17, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Easter 3 The Resurrection, Recovering Every Self-Conscious Moment

Easter 3 The Resurrection---Recovering Every Self-Conscious Moment.

John 20:1-2 “Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we don’t where they have put Him.’”

As you read this you are in the self-conscious moment. You are in the… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 17, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Easter 2 Looking Backward in Order to Look Forward

Easter 2 Looking Backward in Order to Look Forward

The point of the Resurrection is to put the final seal of approval on the life, the claims and the identity of Jesus. In other words we look back in order to look ahead. This is a brief Scriptural overview of His identity, His claims and what He did, from John and Luke.

First, His identity

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Just who Is Jesus anyway? Jesus’ Resurrection must have sent the disciples and everyone else clamoring for words He said,… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 14, 2009 at 8:18pm — No Comments

He is Risen!

He is Risen! The Lord is Risen Indeed! Hallelujah!!!

The stone rolled away, the empty tomb, the neatness of the collapsed grave clothes, the appearance of angels, Jesus speaking to Mary Magdalene, His many appearances, the beginning and growth in the hearts and numbers of His followers, the changed world after and His still emblazoned touch on the present.

What happened 2000 years ago is still happening in the hearts and minds of those who believe He is not only risen and… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 12, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

The Cross and the Resurrection

The Accomplishment of the Cross and the Resurrection

Rarely, if ever, do you hear a sermon about God’s wrath. This is the ‘feel good’ age when we look for love and happiness without accountability. If anything was obvious to the people of God in the Old Testament it was the fury and wrath of God against sin and evil. Everything physical was read as having God’s hand in it in some way especially when it came to weather, prosperity and disease. Good crops, healthy children and… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 11, 2009 at 5:36pm — No Comments

Lent 23 The Cross and Death, Between Good Friday and Easter

Lent 23 The Cross and Death

Between Good Friday and Easter is today’s burden to place at the foot of the Cross. Why did Jesus die and just what did He embrace on the Cross? His last words tell us a whole lot. What He embraced was sin in all of its dimensions, its intent, its content, its extent and its power. Look at each one closely and ponder them.

The First Word

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?

Forsakenness.

The forsakenness that Jesus experienced… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 11, 2009 at 11:41am — No Comments

From Larry O'Connell

My own physician explained some of this to me a while back, as he commented on the nail cross I wear at times. It can be a difficult read.

Medical Aspects of The Crucifixion:

The Agony of Love

by Dr. Mark Eastman

On the evening before His crucifixion Jesus was gathered with His disciples in the upper room, sharing with them some of the most intimate truths of His entire ministry. As He discussed the love of the Father and His love for His disciples he… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 10, 2009 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Lent 22 The Cross and Now

Lent 22 The Cross and Now ---Good Friday---

You don’t realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand. Jn.13:7

Now that you know these things…Jn.13:17

I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He. Jn.13:19

Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in Him and if God is glorified in Him, God will glorify the Son in Himself, and will glorify Him at once. Jn.13:31-32.

Now [Father] they know… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 10, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Lent 21

Lent 21 The Cross, Mind and Power, Fourth Day

The Cross The Mind The Power

The Way The Truth The Life

Trust Belief Faith

We apprehend the image of the Cross.

We comprehend its meaning.

We contend under its authority.

This is the pattern the Cross gives us to set our daily course:

By the Cross we are rescued from the world back to God.

In the Cross we find the truth about God and the world.

With the Cross we move under God back… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 9, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Lent 20 More on the Cross and the Mind

Lent 20 More on the Cross and the Mind, Fourth Day

Jesus asked the Pharisees, “What do you think about the Christ, whose son is he?” (Matt.22:42).

This question comes after three confronting groups of Pharisees and Sadducees try to put Jesus down intellectually. The Pharisees' goal was to trap Him in regard to paying taxes and which of the commandments was the greatest. The Sadducees tried to get Him about the Resurrection. His answers amazed and silenced both.… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 8, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Lent 19

Lent 19 Pondering the Meaning of the Cross During Holy Week, Third Day

The Cross and the Mind

The best place to start our look at the mind is with Jesus’ answer to the Pharisees when questioned as to which was the greatest commandment, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind (Matt.22:37).” It seems that Jesus was indicating the heart and soul set the path for the mind. Mark 7:21 quotes Jesus, “For from within, out of men’s hearts come evil thoughts…” He… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 7, 2009 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Lent 18

Lent 18 Pondering the Meaning of the Cross During Holy Week, Second Day

The Cross and Strongholds

Jesus calls us to live under the authority of the Cross. To do that we need to go back to the Beatitudes because they are the direct application of the Cross to our hearts. The Cross is the key to understanding the purpose of the Beatitudes. Through the Cross the Beatitudes become keys Jesus gives us to unlock the unseen. Therein lies part of the reason we are called the Kingdom’s… Continue

Added by HKHaugan on April 6, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

An Easter Faith in an Age of Good Fridays

Worried about the attacks on the Gospel in the popular media? At the moment, the attacks center on the implicit or explicit claim that the Gospels are highly fictional, and that the Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church has been suppressing the real truth about Jesus. Apparently, new attacks will soon be coming that will even deny that Jesus ever existed at all!

While they are hard for us to hear, these are really very old accusations, and from long ago to the present they… Continue

Added by Larry O'Connell on April 5, 2009 at 7:59pm — No Comments