Pastor Ken’s Devotional Thoughts

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Eight Sayings of Jesus After Resurrection

by Ken Shiplet

Our New Life In Christ – The Love Life This week, our devotional thoughts will be a celebration of our new life in Christ. To do this, we are looking at eight sayings of Jesus after His resurrection. Each of these sayings explains one blessed aspect of our new life with Christ. 5. The Love […]

Eight Sayings of Jesus After Resurrection

by Ken Shiplet

Our New Life In Christ – The Faith Life This week, our devotional thoughts will be a celebration of our new life in Christ. To do this, we are looking at eight sayings of Jesus after His resurrection. Each of these sayings explains one blessed aspect of our new life with Christ. 4. The Faith […]

Eight Sayings of Jesus After Resurrection

by Ken Shiplet

Our New Life In Christ – The Peace Life This week, our devotional thoughts will be a celebration of our new life in Christ. To do this, we are looking at eight sayings of Jesus after His resurrection. Each of these sayings explains one blessed aspect of our new life with Christ. 3. The Peace […]

Eight Sayings of Jesus After Resurrection

by Ken Shiplet

Our New Life In Christ – The Word Life This week, our devotional thoughts will be a celebration of our new life in Christ. To do this, we are looking at eight sayings of Jesus after His resurrection. Each of these sayings explains one blessed aspect of our new life with Christ. 2. The Word […]

Eight Sayings of Jesus After Resurrection

by Ken Shiplet

Our New Life In Christ – The Heaven Life During the Easter season, many sermons are preached on the Seven Sayings of Christ on the Cross. It is important to emphasize the significance of Christ’s death for our sins. And it is equally important to emphasize the significance of His resurrection. There is no resurrection […]

A Promise of Salvation

by Ken Shiplet

Luke 23:39–43 (ESV) 39 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the […]

Father, Forgive Them (Part Two)

by Ken Shiplet

Luke 23:34 (ESV) And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” What Jesus was doing in forgiving others on the cross was a culmination of everything he was about: Jesus, while on earth, demonstrated that he, as the Son of Man, had the authority to forgive sins (Luke 5:20-25) Jesus […]

Father, Forgive Them (Part One)

by Ken Shiplet

Luke 23:34 (ESV) And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” When Jesus prayed for the forgiveness of those who were crucifying him, he may have had in mind everyone who participated in his condemnation. That would include those who mocked him and the Jewish and Roman leaders. But, think […]

Did God Die on the Cross?

by Ken Shiplet

I can’t say it any better that R. C. Sproul:   ”We believe that Jesus Christ was God incarnate. We also believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross. If we say that God died on the cross, and if by that we mean that the divine nature perished, we have stepped over the edge […]

Who Killed Jesus?

by Ken Shiplet

When I ask, “Who Killed Jesus? I’m not talking about the obvious ones who were involved in the actual crucifixion (i.e. the vast conspiracy involving Rome, Herod, the Gentiles, the Jewish Sanhedrin, and the people of Israel). I grew up hearing more than one preacher say that I killed Jesus – that my sins nailed […]