Comments on: A World Without Easter

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:30:16 +0000

Thanks for this meditation. Great from beginning to end.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sun, 05 May 2024 15:18:09 +0000

I just watched your message at the ROC in Leawood, KS. I appreciate the message to be a good big brother and how we are called to show Christ by our actions and words and testimony. I also appreciate this post – Am I living like God is alive and more powerful than sin? That’s quite a beautiful truth to ponder.
May we all keep humbling ourselves, turning to the One who gives us life, and show Christ to our communities.

By: Jun Gonzaga

Jun Gonzaga — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 03:10:49 +0000

Do I act like God is alive? Thanks Philip. Nowadays, the question for me is even more personal. It is not only that God is alive, it is also that He loves me, unworthy as I am. Thus, the question for me then is “Do I act like God’s beloved”?

By: Frank Evans

Frank Evans — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:28:26 +0000

Philip

Peter followed Judas “with a three-fold act of betrayal …” ??

No, it was denial that Peter entered into. Semantics? No, different word, I checked just to make sure.

And different act: Judas – premeditated; Peter – caved in spite of best effort, exactly as Jesus said. There was no following or even parallel, rather two very different tangents.

By: Lisa Simmons

Lisa Simmons — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:11:05 +0000

What a great question. I don’t think I’ve sat and thought about what the characteristics of someone who believes God is alive would be. I’ve been a Christian since I was 13 (now 64) and before that grew up around church and Christians. My grandmother, “Mawmaw” was probably the only one I could say I would want to emulate. She was quiet, never talked about anyone negatively, always ready with a meal or snack and I believed prayed quietly for all of us. Pretty simple really. But is that going to prove to everyone that I believe God is alive? Probably not.
I believe, and maybe this is not new but just more prolific, the definitions of what traditional Christianity taught has changed. We can’t love with unity because we define love differently from each other-other Christians. To one love means accept unconditionally. To another it means love but tell them the truth. Which is the next problem-truth. Whose truth? What truth? Biblical truth, you say? Whose interpretation ? In this information age, the more information we have the more we try to cram it into our tiny box of a brain. Some of us are able to get rid of some of the old info to make room for new. Others just keep stacking and rearranging, seeking one more tiny crevice to store one more piece. But again, definitions. Deconstruction has become all the rage. Some are able to just “disentangle ” while others completely demolish everything they were taught and build back with a tower of their own making.

The only way I know to show that I believe God is alive is to keep living as if I don’t know it all. And because I don’t, I choose to trust God and reconcile my questions and “if onlys” to his Sovereignty. Whether that proves to someone I believe God is alive or not, I don’t know. As always, thank you for making me think.

By: Rose

Rose — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:43:45 +0000

Interestingly, I have been to Ommeramagau myself, but not at Easter. It is a mysterious thing, this belief in a God, and his son Jesus, and how his gruesome death could be a “way forward”. For all the unbelievers, those who say religion is bad, there is no God, and all that, how has any of those views helped or improved the world? The secular has as much to answer for as traditional religion. The cult of “me, me, me” hasn’t done anything uplifting to humanity, and has actually made things worse, in my view. Thank you for your message and images. Well done.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:27:33 +0000

Thank you Philip for your inspiring Easter reflection from my home country Germany to the launch of new creation through the resurecction of Jesus. As ‘Jesus people’ we can and should be reflecting that new life of Jesus into a broken world today like living signposts of God’s new creation that was launched in and through Jesus and that in the end it will bring restoration of the whole of creation ( Col. 1:15-20)

By: Viktoria Anderholt

Viktoria Anderholt — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:16:57 +0000

That question alone is enough to reignite Faith Philip! For if we can’t answer it with a powerful YES…. can we even be considered Christians!? I have struggled with anxiety ridden doubt for 3 yrs after 26 years of solid Christianity……reading the Bible daily! For 3 years now I've prayed for God to help me find Him again….still reading the Bible daily….and yet ….hearing only silence…. till I read that question! You hit the nail on the head just as you always do! May it help me come back to knowing that YES - God is alive and I can lay the burden on him and Love my enemies and live without the worlds anxiety! For without being able to lay the burden on Him…. I have to carry it! God has been waiting for me to give it up to Him and I haven’t been able to. Of course he’s alive. And He will be ……today, yesterday and forever.

By: Gordon Ruddick

Gordon Ruddick — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:51:50 +0000

Oh my. How can I read the biblical account so many times and still be shown truth I had not thought of! Thank you, Philip, for new things to think about from such an old story. And yet the story is never old. Thaniks for this wonderful insight.
Blessings.

By: Mary Lindow

Mary Lindow — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:01:56 +0000

All I can say is a quiet but fierce “yes” to this message. So well spoken for the times we are living in. Thank you…