“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
The post "In the Beginning...." dated September 29,2024, which you can read here, ended with these words: "Human life is now without hope because our divine operating system, the indwelling life of our God, is not present in us. We are not equipped to live successfully without that life in us. History has proven that …
"Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." Genesis 2:7 If we go back, way back to the story of human beginnings, we find information that can breathe new life into our faith today. In …
“The way to bliss lies not on a bed of down, and he that has no cross deserves no crown.” Francis Quades “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those …
Image via Pixabay “I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely shield me from the retribution that was mine to bear, and repeatedly took the blows. And I …
“By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are rebels no more, but are servants; no more servants, but sons!” F. W. Farrar “Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” Galatians 5:24 So how is it that are to live …
“Some people have been misinformed about the Christian life and living the crucified life. For some reason, they think that it is an easy path. They believe that God will take away all of their problems and difficulties and that they will be able to live their lives without any kind of distraction or disturbance.” …
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade." - Desiderius Erasmus Why was the death of Christ Jesus necessary for our salvation? Understanding the purpose for our salvation is key to answering that question. As a race of humans we were created by our God to experience close …
“Indeed, taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.” ― Brooke Foss …
“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.” ― W.H. Auden The death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion has a profound impact on the social world. It divides. Actually, …
Jesus was dead. There could be no rational basis for disputing that. Beaten nearly to death after not having slept all night. Nailed to a cross with heavy spikes through the upper writs and lower legs. Left to hang in the heat, slowly suffocating, struggling for each breath. Parched and dehydrated, starved for food. Stabbed …
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