Josh Benner

Tag: remembrance

  • Holocaust Remembrance Day and the evils of humanity

    Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was on this day 75 years ago, Auschwitz Concentration Camp was liberated. More than 1 million people lost their lives at Auschwitz while millions more perished in the hundreds of other concentration camps run by the Nazis. But tragically, on a day set apart to remember those who…

  • Feels like yesterday: 9/11 through the years

    There aren’t very many days in your life where you know at the time that life is never going to be the same. Everyone knew that on 9/11. 18 years. Today is the only day ever where everyone who was born on or before September 11, 2001 is legally an adult and everyone who was…

  • Memorial Day and the importance of remembering

    American Revolution – 25,000 War of 1812 – 15,000 Civil War – 364,511 World War I – 116,516 World War II – 405,399 Korean War – 36,516 Vietnam – 58,209 Afghanistan and Iraq – 6,713 To the hundreds of thousands of men and women who gave their lives in the service and defense of America,…

  • The gospel in the Exodus journey

    The exodus journey is the seminal event of the Old Testament. It’s the story of God miraculously delivering the Israelites from slavery for the purpose of bringing them to the promised land. The Old Testament constantly calls upon the Israelites to remember what God had done.

  • In Memoriam: Grant Osborne

    One of my great regrets of seminary was never having Grant Osborne as a professor. Many of my friends did and I’ve heard stories. I’ve heard his lectures compared to drinking through a firehose with all of the information he dispensed. Dr. Osborne passed away last night. I had actually just bought one of his…