Death of Christ (217)
  1. Asking, “Do you have to be baptized to be saved?” is really like asking, “Does Jesus have to save you in order for you to be saved?”
  2. The Scriptural pictures of atonement offer every Christian comfort and hope against sin through the power of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
  3. We don’t need another human to love us, so we become our own divinity full of self-directed, unconditional acceptance.
  4. As we enter into this year’s Advent season, this blog is a part of our series on the hope we find in, through and given by Christ, Each week’s installment will look at hope from a different perspective with special emphasis on corresponding passages of Scripture.
  5. Where Jesus says, “She’s not dead, she’s sleeping,” death dies.
  6. Let’s take a walk together. And as we do, I’ll tell you a mystery.
  7. We are caught up in a battle between two kings and two kingdoms. And, whether we like it or not, we are ruled by one king or the other.
  8. Our meditation listens to the King of Kings when He says; it is finished.
  9. No matter how loving we are, we don’t get bonus points with the Almighty for imitating Jesus. We love each other because we recognize that “this is one for whom Jesus died.
  10. Out of His mind indeed, as He took our place between murderers and received the insults and torture of humanity.
  11. There in that moment, the waters of baptism reached down deep into the forsaken path of the grave with a man whose body and mind could no longer hold onto any reality otherwise.
  12. In Martin Luther's Small Catechism he borrows a line from St. Augustine about what defines a "god."
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