Gary Fritsch

Today's Scripture I often meet people who are troubled to find that Jesus calls Satan the 'ruler of this world'. But as I wrote recently, the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ makes Satan a lame-duck ruler. As Jesus says: He has no power over me. If Satan has no power over Jesus, then He has no power over us if we cling to Jesus as our Lord and Savior. As many of you know, my favorite contemporary Christian band is Rend Collective and they have a song entitled: More than...

Today's Scripture Christian author and speaker Alan Hirsch has developed a system of personal ministry style assessment based on Ephesians chapter four where Paul says that some are given as Apostles, some as Prophets, some as Evangelists, some as Shepherds, and some as Teachers. In his simple and beautiful way of examining our own calling, the word that Alan uses to most directly describe the 'Apostle' ministry style is 'Sent.' Apostles are the sent ones. They seem to be able to overcome...

Today's Scripture Let’s play a little game of sentence completion. I’ll start a sentence and you can provide the appropriate conclusion. Here it goes: “No one has greater love than to... Oh, you nailed it. When we hear this quote from Christ in John’s Gospel today, we most commonly think of Jesus laying down his life for us in the crucifixion, or anyone who dies to save another. This is not always the case. Sometimes laying down one’s life is a day-by-day process where acts of love and...