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Gerrit Scott Dawson

Gerrit Scott Dawson is pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and author of Raising Adam: Why Jesus Descended into Hell.
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Faith in an Age of Unbelief: Breaking the Spells of Modernity

Faith in an Age of Unbelief

Breaking the Spells of Modernity

Aug 21, 2023
The world assures us only what we see is real. It repeats the lie until we wonder if it’s truth. How can we break the devil’s spell?
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Aug 21, 2023
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Break the Hardness in Me: A Holy Week Prayer for the Heart

Break the Hardness in Me

A Holy Week Prayer for the Heart

Apr 3, 2023
All of us need help feeling as we should feel before the cross of Christ. So how can we enter into the sorrow and awe of Good Friday?
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Apr 3, 2023
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Christmas and Our Longing to Belong

Christmas and Our Longing to Belong

Dec 12, 2022
We long for home — for a safe, happy place where we belong. And every year, the manger reminds us that our longing for home is really a longing for him.
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Dec 12, 2022
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Jesus, Only Jesus: What ‘Christ Alone’ Really Means

Jesus, Only Jesus

What ‘Christ Alone’ Really Means

Oct 18, 2022
The name to answer our guilt is not our own name or Mary’s name or Muhammad’s name. The answer is Jesus, only Jesus.
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Oct 18, 2022
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When Death Does Us Part: Last Words of a Long Lost Love

When Death Does Us Part

Last Words of a Long Lost Love

Aug 16, 2022
When a long and happy marriage finally ends, nothing in this world can quite remove the wound a living spouse carries. But something beyond this world can.
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Aug 16, 2022
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Agony in the Garden: What Jesus Suffered in Gethsemane

Agony in the Garden

What Jesus Suffered in Gethsemane

Apr 13, 2022
In the garden of Gethsemane, the fate of the universe turned on one sentence, pressed from Jesus like oil crushed from an olive: “Not my will, but yours, be done.”
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Apr 13, 2022
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God in Skin and Time: Jesus as the Beloved Son

God in Skin and Time

Jesus as the Beloved Son

Dec 22, 2021
“Son of God” is a familiar title filled with profound mystery. What does it mean for Jesus, the son of Mary, to also be the Son of God?
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Dec 22, 2021
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The Death of Gandalf: When Tolkien Pierced My Heart

The Death of Gandalf

When Tolkien Pierced My Heart

Sep 3, 2021
Sometimes made-up scenes teach us reality best, like the profound and enduring lessons from Gandalf’s fall into the abyss.
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Sep 3, 2021
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A Daring and Beautiful Duel over Death

A Daring and Beautiful Duel over Death

Apr 7, 2021
What should we see when we look at a skull? In Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and George Herbert’s “Death,” two of the greatest English poets duel over the grave.
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Apr 7, 2021
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Into the Waters with Us: Five Reasons Jesus Was Baptized

Into the Waters with Us

Five Reasons Jesus Was Baptized

Jan 8, 2021
When Jesus was baptized, he went under the water for us — so that he might represent us, and so that we might be with him forever.
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Jan 8, 2021
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King over Chaos: The Lordship of Christ on Election Day

King over Chaos

The Lordship of Christ on Election Day

Nov 2, 2020
The early Christians had almost no political or economic power. Many were slaves. Yet they all shared one revolutionary conviction: Jesus is Lord.
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Nov 2, 2020
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The Day Jesus Stayed Dead: Waiting in the Heartache of Holy Saturday

The Day Jesus Stayed Dead

Waiting in the Heartache of Holy Saturday

Apr 11, 2020
Jesus not only died and rose. He was buried. And our full redemption rests, in part, on the silence of Holy Saturday.
Gerrit Scott Dawson
Apr 11, 2020
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The Human on Heaven’s Throne: Why the Ascension of Christ Matters

The Human on Heaven’s Throne

Why the Ascension of Christ Matters

May 30, 2019
Many of us rehearse the gospel as Jesus lived, died, and rose. But do we remember that he ascended? What are we missing when we forget the ascension?
Gerrit Scott Dawson
May 30, 2019
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Why the Ascension of Jesus Matters: An Interview with Gerrit Scott Dawson and Jonny Woodrow

Authors on the Line

May 8, 2013
On May 9 we celebrate the ascension of Jesus, a date marked out 40 days after his resurrection, when he departed from earth and returned bodily to heaven (Luke 24:50–53, Acts 1:9–11). On first glance, Jesus rising up in the…
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May 8, 2013

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