Mike Mitchell

I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely […]

Why celebrate Pentecost?  How does celebrating Pentecost help us?  Why should anyone even bother? Well, to answer the last question first, I’d say it shouldn’t be a bother IF it’s a celebration … but, then again, celebrations mean different things to different people. For me, celebrating Pentecost is no bother, at all.  Indeed, I count it a privilege and a blessing (not a bother) to celebrate Pentecost and I do so because of what Pentecost

On Good Friday, many Christian believers commemorated the death of Jesus?  On Easter Sunday, we remember His resurrection.  But what if there had been no resurrection?  What if Jesus had remained dead?  1 Corinthians 15:12-19 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?  13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is