This coming Sunday, I will be speaking on “Experiencing the Passion of Jesus. Wikipedia gives this definition of passion:

“Passion (from the Ancient Greek verb paskho meaning to suffer) is a term applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something. The term is also often applied to a lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity or love - to a feeling of…

Church announcements are often ignored and easily forgotten. Here is a great example from Saddleback church on how to do announcements--on video! It is clear, adds music, interesting "b-roll" video, pictures, website addresses (including a visual how-to), and more. Great for this video and visual age--and it can be passed on virally to Facebook,…

 When we are born again, we change our citizenship: from a kingdom of darkness to a kingdom of light. Paul tells us "our citizenship is in heaven" (Philippians 3:20 ESV). It is from this new kingdom that we are sent as representatives, or ambassadors if you will, to the micro-cultures where we find our selves living.

A quick glance at some of the facts about ambassadors will give us some insights regarding how we are to live as representatives of our King. According to…