"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."
My lovely bride an I went to last nights showing of God is not dead at the Andover theater. It was a gorgeous evening and a great way to celebrate her birthday weekend! As a father who went through the pain of losing a child I am declaring here that God isn't dead. He is very much alive and over the course of years He has demonstrated to me in so many ways that He is alive.
As a grieving father who still had a child to raise I had to lean on my Eternal father to help me get through the incredible rough, painful patches of my grief. Placing one footprint in front of the other I chose to keep my family together by attending church each Sabbath, week after week, honoring Jesus Christ who had blessed me in so many ways through the years of my life. I refused to give in to the crescendo of 'naysayers' who urged me to declare that God was dead. As I studied God's word in perhaps the greatest instructional manual of all time the crescendo of naysayers were getting more faint until I could no longer hear them. Instead, I felt the eternal presence of God as He spoke to me in his Holy Spirit. 'I am alive. I have risen, I am here to comfort and guide you in your troubles'
Won't you declare that God is alive? You can know the same Eternal God that I have known since 1974 when in a simple prayer at the Minnetonka church/coffee house ministry I invited Jesus Christ to come into my heart. He did and he has never left me, nor has he ever forsaken me.
So today in a mighty crescendo of voices I am declaring with the other 10,000 voices that 'God is not dead, He is alive!! I have included the News Boys song, 'God is not dead' below.
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