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In the fall of 1765, a son was born into the Eby home along the Hammer Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Peter was the third child of Anabaptist deacon Christian and Catharine (Bricker) Eby. He grew up among a community of Swiss immigrants, many of which remembered coming to America in the previous decades.
Peter’s great-grandfather was Theodorus Eby, a mini...
Growing up in church, I heard calls to take up my cross.
I also heard those puzzling words about crucifying my flesh, about putting to death the “old man,” about dying to self.
These are strange terms. What do they mean? The words come from the Bible. That didn’t mean I knew what the words meant—either in the Bible or in the mouths of preachers.
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December 24, 1914. A line of muddy trenches doggedly tracks all the way from the North Sea to Switzerland. The filthy ditches are filled with death. The smell of decomposition hangs in the air. The living struggle for survival among the dead. This is “The Great War” and killing has been economized.
Gone are the days of magnificently parading onto the battlefield. T...
Jesus went to the cross, not so we need not die, but so we can live. To share his life, we must share his death. Jesus went to the cross alone while his followers fled, hung back, or denied him. Yet, because of Jesus’ victory on the cross, his disciples now follow him in taking up the cross—and in his resurrection life. For all the difficulties and denials of discipleship, th...