How the Resurrection Fills Your Life with Meaning, Purpose, Happiness, and Hope

Here Patrick Schreiner writes, “If you reject the resurrection, then none of the following things can be true. However, if you believe in the resurrection, your life can be filled with meaning, purpose, happiness, and hope.”

Why Don’t Our Sermons Change People?

“Many of us in conservative evangelical churches rightly prize biblical preaching. We want careful exegesis. We want theological depth. We want context, structure, precision, and faithfulness to the text. And rightly so. The preacher is not called to entertain, speculate, or offer therapeutic musings detached from Scripture. He is called to “preach the word” (2 Timothy 4:2). But somewhere along the way, many sermons have quietly become lectures with a Bible verse attached.”

Take it on the Chin

“All too often, I believe, we are too thin-skinned. We don’t want to tolerate the slightest hint that someone might not think as well of us as we do of ourselves. Other times I think people are all too interested in immediate vindication. We want everyone to know we are right and that others have wronged us.”