Satan’s Defeat at the Cross – Christus Victor
From a purely human perspective, Jesus’ hours of agony upon the Cross appear to be the very inverse of victory. Rejected by His people, abused nearly to point of death, accused and convicted of crimes for which He is known to be innocent and then cruelly affixed to the tortuous tool of death, our senses [...]
The Justice of God in the Cross
In expressing his moral shock at God’s decision to destroy the good with the bad in Sodom, Abraham voiced what many believers have wanted to yell throughout history, “Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Indeed! The slaughter of the righteous and the wicked and the continued prospering of the wicked so [...]
Facing Calvary Seven : Hilaskomai
Lenten Reflections Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi 2012 God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just [...]
Burial Cloth and Neatness
The Jesus We Missed by Patrick Henry Reardon The folding of the kerchief may have been completely unconscious. I do not find this hard to believe. The universal Christ, the eternal Word in whom all things subsist, was still the same Jesus to whom an act of elementary neatness came naturally. It was in reading [...]
In Him All Things Hold Together
Jesus + Nothing = Everything by Tullian Tchividjian Thomas Paine described the crisis of revolution as the “times that try men’s souls”, a season of life in which one would have to be undeniably sure of the foundation on which his feet rested. Without that assurance there would be no resistance against which to create [...]
Follow.Me
One.Life by Scot McKnight The time has come. The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news! Christians are well known for substituting legalism and activity for biblical discipleship of the kind that demands an investment of nothing less than your entire life. McKnight brings his always practical insight to bear [...]
God So Loved the World IV
Lent 2011 For God so loved the world… John 3:16 so adv 1. In the way or manner indicated. 2. to the extent or degree indicated or suggested. 3. very or extremely. 4. very greatly. 5. most certainly… The small word so carries a lot of weight in this passage as it modifies the verb [...]
God So Loved the World II
Lent 2011 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) Though there is an almost universal familiarity with this verse amongst the Christian family, many forget the speaker and the context of His words. It [...]
God So Loved the World
Lent 2011 It is a fact of life that the most familiar things in our lives tend to fade to background, receiving little attention and often being taken for granted. We assume we will awaken tomorrow and that our significant others will continue to love us as they have. Our lives in Christ are not [...]
Jesus Manifesto by Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola
Sweet and Viola say this somewhere near the midpoint of their new book, Jesus Manifesto: “Get a fresh glimpse of your incomparable Lord, and you will be emboldened to stop spending your life on yourself. Connect with Him who is life, and you will be empowered to deny yourself, live beyond yourself, and live outside [...]
