God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him.John 3:17 Good Friday. Good, of course, means Holy. And "holy" best describes the initiative of Jesus, taking his invitation for each one of us to walk into reconciliation all the way to the cross. …
You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord, so live your life as children of light. Light produces fruit that consists of every sort of goodness, justice, and truth. Therefore, test everything to see what’s pleasing to the Lord, and don’t participate in the unfruitful actions of darkness. Instead, you should reveal the …
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An invitation that is still fresh, vital, and alive
this is a day that calls for some response in terms of our own personal walk with God.
The goodness that Good Friday makes possible is foundational to practical Christianity. If we are not excellent to each other, then Christ is not alive in us.
It's still Saturday - and the stone has yet to be rolled away...
For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me …
The season of Lent presents a progression of ever-increasing opportunity when it comes to deepening our spiritual walk. Six-weeks for preparation; eight-days of Holy Week; three days if your observance begins with Good Friday. For me, one of the most moving is "Maundy Thursday," and the occasion of The Last Supper. For many Christians, it's …
Today is Good Friday. It's a day when love stepped up beyond reason, set all defenses aside, and allowed hate to nail the best hope history ever saw to a wooden scaffold. However, rather than being ground into obscurity under the heel of fear and brutality, love transformed the crudely assembled cross from a symbol of torture …
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See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we …
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Derek Maul: Words, Photographs, and Food for the Journey 