500 Resurrection Eye Witnesses?

We have all heard of St John Chrysostom but few know details about his extraordinary life. His tremendous impact on the Church is immeasurable, especially in spirituality and biblical interpretation. His complicated life revealed his holiness in his extreme circumstances. Music a ...  Show more

Despite the mystique of allegory, many Christians disagreed with the arbitrary character of Alexandrian biblical interpretation. A different style arose and became popular in Antioch. It eventually prevailed, largely due to its most famous proponent: St. John Chrysostom. Music at ...  Show more

Friends, why was the story of Jesus with the little children, versions of which appear in the three synoptic Gospels, so vividly remembered by the first Christians? I think they intuited that it got very close to the heart of Jesus’ teaching. The way Mark sets up his account o ...

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Jesus is the master at telling a good story. He used everyday things to communicate spiritual truth, and these often came in the form of parables. As we continue in our Here & Now series, Pastor Tim will dive in one particular parable, which Jesus claims if you don’t understand t ...  Show more

Friends on this Fifth Sunday of Easter, we have an extraordinary Gospel that is at the heart of the Christian thing. Jesus, at the beginning of a lengthy and incredibly rich monologue he gives the night before he dies, says to his disciples, “I give you a new commandment: love ...