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Mar 21, 2016 · The final and inevitable consequence of our sin is death and judgment before God. We gaze at a crucified Christ because we believe that our salvation is from a Savior who was willing to bear death and judgment for us. On the cross, we cannot avoid the consequence for our sin. We must stare directly at it. This is the great paradox of our faith ...
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But if you take your eyes off of him, if you don’t focus on him, you become like a little leaf or a dead fish, and you just float the way the river’s going. And the river is not flowing toward heaven in this world. It’s flowing the other direction. So you don’t have to work hard to go to hell; you just have to drift. Drifting is very dangerous. Ver...
Let me illustrate for you. I got up at three o’clock this morning. That’s no brag. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon my time; I’m still in Uganda. I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t want to get up at three o’clock. I had no plan to get up at three o’clock. I couldn’t sleep. I said, “Well, if I’m awake, I’ve got to preach over there at Bethesda anyway. I’v...
When I was in Kenya, a week ago now — God was so good. Thank you so much for praying for me. God was so good to me in Nairobi and in Kapchorwa, Uganda, to give me all I needed to keep my tummy safe while eating all that funny stuff over there, and to help me handle jet lag and teach for sixteen hours in those five days. It was so good. And you know...
- Jesus’ crucifixion points us to the stunning uniqueness of Christ—one who, as Paul describes in Philippians 2, “being in very nature God, . . . made himself nothing . . .
- The cross helps us see the seriousness of our own sin and our absolute inability to save ourselves from it. Given that our imaginations, like everything else, have been tainted by the Fall, we can’t picture what the garden of Eden might have been like—the vibrancy, the lushness, the safety, the beauty, the peace and life and flourishing and order.
- The cross helps us see the depth of God’s love and the wisdom of his plan. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis gives us a picture of this through these words of Aslan after his death and resurrection
- The cross shows us how we are called to live as followers of Jesus: as people who both have the King’s power available to them and are deeply humble; as people who are secure in their Father’s love for them, and thus able to withstand suffering; as people who pray with force against the enemy and fully submit themselves to God.
Jan 4, 2022 · By rights, He should be our focus. Colossians 3:1–4 contains much that can help us stay focused on Christ: “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with ...
Nov 29, 2017 · May God help us to choose wisely. 11 Verses to Help Us Live in the Power of His Word and Experience the Presence of Jesus: Why We Need Him Every day. Jesus is the Bread of Life – "Then Jesus ...
10. We’ll be glad when we see people in heaven. Luke 15:7 tells us, “In the same way, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine respectable people who do not need to repent” (GNT). They throw a party in heaven when someone comes to faith in Jesus.
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Jan 14, 2024 · The core themes of Jesus’ teaching centered on the Kingdom of God being immanent. He urged people to repent their sins before God’s judgment. Yet he also brought a message of grace, dining with sinners and outcasts of society. Overall, Jesus placed love for God and neighbors as life’s greatest commands.
