Death of Christ (208)
  1. We already know how the war will conclude. Jesus wins.
  2. Is there anything abiding, anything long-lasting that can inspire us to hope again?
  3. The biggest point Luther makes about the descent is not that Jesus triumphed over hell idle and unaffected, but that Jesus defeated hell by suffering hell away.
  4. Paul says that the power of sin is the law. The more clearly we understand the law, the more sin oppresses and stings us.
  5. The implications were clear: Jesus’ death destroyed the things that distinguished people as educated or uneducated, rich or poor, free or enslaved, black or white, pious or godless.
  6. Your faith is not dependent on whether or not you suffer well. Your faith is dependent on the fact that Christ did.
  7. We can rejoice in our own need and the gift we receive through baptism given by the same one by whom John desired to be baptized.
  8. It’s a delivery of historical facts that tells us who Jesus is and what he has done for us through his dying on the cross and his rising from the grave.
  9. The following is an excerpt from "Finding Christ in the Straw" written by Robert M. Hiller (1517 Publishing, 2020).
  10. Should we really be surprised that it would happen this way, that the servant would suffer for our salvation and die for our forgiveness?
  11. At Christmas, we hear the story of our salvation, but it’s not pretty.
  12. JFK was not the only national figure who died on November 11, 1963. Though his death certainly took up most of the headlines, the acclaimed writers C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley also died that day as well.
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