Religion

 On Easter we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection as a historical fact. There are at least 15 historical records in the scriptures showing Jesus touching people, eating with people, and talking with people after his resurrection. Five hundred people saw him at one time.

"My time is near." Those words are found in Matthew 26:18 as Jesus directed his disciples to prepare for the Passover that he would celebrate with them. They were to go to a certain home and say, "The Teacher says, 'My time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'"

Jesus knew he was going to die. Opposition toward him had continued to grow. Soon they would seize him and he would be put to death. He knew what was in his immediate future.

Book signing

Dr. J. Dwayne Howell, professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Campbellsville University, will be in the Barnes & Noble College Bookstore in the Davenport Student Commons on CU's campus signing "Preaching and the Personal," a collection of papers that he edited, 3-5 p.m. April 3. The bookstore is located at 410 N. Hoskins Ave., Campbellsville.

Howell is serving as pastor of Rolling Fork Baptist Church in Gleanings.

Single Mom's Oil Change

….Do not … grieve like the rest of men who have no hope. 1 Thessalonians 4:13

Several years ago, a dear friend lost her husband unexpectedly. At the funeral home, she asked me to write some articles about grief. I told her I would, but, in truth, I couldn’t write effectively about something I had never truly experienced.