Death of Christ (208)
  1. Sometimes loss is gain. Sometimes defeat is victory. Sometimes weakness is strength. Sometimes death is life. Sometimes, that is, when Christ is at the center, on his cross and not in his tomb.
  2. God has found a way to be God even for the likes of us. He has found a way to save sinners.
  3. Christ has come to make every last aspect of your life the object of his eternal, never-ending, always transitive grace.
  4. Easter must be seen in light of the cross. It must never overshadow Good Friday. They are a packaged deal!
  5. You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.
  6. I write this as someone who’s genuinely concerned that American congregants are getting bamboozled by preachers who are giving them less than what they need Sunday after Sunday.
  7. At its heart, this is what Deacon King Kong is all about: the paradox of Jesus carving his victory out of the last thing we expect, not our triumphs but our defeats.
  8. Viewing the Word as a unified theological narrative prevents us from treating the Scriptures like a cage match between competing theological systems, with prophets duking it out with apostles, and psalmists with evangelists, all supposedly fighting for their voice to be heard.
  9. The Advents of Christ (past, present, and future) elicit faith in the word of Christ, confirmed by his presence.
  10. Your Christian faith is a bloody faith, and that ought not make you fearful or scared or embarrassed.
  11. He also took our own history and suffered all the agony and pain of our own lives.
  12. Each week during this year’s Advent series, we will take a look at a specific implication of Christ’s incarnation. This week, we will discover how God reaffirms the goodness of his creation by making all things new in the incarnation.
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