On Good Friday 1957, Karl Barth preached a sermon about the three being crucified. He said, “Consider the fact: Jesus died precisely for these two criminals who were crucified on his right and on his left and went to death with them. He did not die for the sake of a good world, he died for the sake of an evil world, not for the pious, but for the godless, not for the just, but for the unjust, for ...
2. The Work of the Church
Luke 3:1-6
Illustration
Sharon Rhodes-Wickett
At the Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in Sierra Leone, West Africa, meetings were held in the large sanctuary in the capital city, Freetown. Each day as we entered the large doors into the sanctuary there was a young girl, maybe about the age of 8, who begged at the door. She looked ragged, dirty, her hair was matted and knotty, and she had on tattered clothes. No one seemed to know her...
