Tag Archives: Easter

The world’s population is aging. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that almost 17 percent of the U.S. population is 65 or over, but the U.S. ranks only 34th globally in the number of aging people. When natural causes of death among the elderly are combined with all those dying ...

Springtime has always brought the promise of new life and the end of another brown, barren Illinois winter. The first tulips begin to pop open; trees get their first, almost invisible green buds, and soon, green grass springs up to carpet over the brown stuff on the ground. I remember ...

Matthew 28:6  “He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” Every year about this time, we hear a beautiful Easter message. We listen to the touching Easter songs that are sung, sadly, only at this time of year. If ...

From one extreme to the other. From lifted up to beaten down. From “Hosanna in the highest” to “Crucify him, crucify him.” These are the highs and lows, the ups and downs, that we witness as we walk through this Holy Week with Christ. It began with Palm Sunday and ...

The night before what would become known as Good Friday, Christ was so upset that he sweat blood (Luke 22:44).  He knew what the following day held for him, and that it would start in only a matter of hours when Judas betrayed him with a kiss. And in Christ’s ...