Only in Christ is there life after death. What an awesome thought! But we sometimes forget that, in Christ, there is death before life.  In order to come to Jesus I had to die to myself. I had to say “no” to me to say “yes” to Him.  Even the practice of water baptism visually illustrates a death (going down), burial (immersion under water), and resurrection (rising again). “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore… Read More