Death of Christ (217)
  1. Jesus does not take the easy way out, but takes the hard path so that you don't need to.
  2. The irony of guilt and innocence abounds in this passage: Jesus is innocent but condemned; we are guilty but set free.
  3. This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the fourth installment of that series.
  4. If you want something empty, the tomb is the way to go. The point of the manger is that Jesus was in it. The point of the cross is that Jesus was on it.
  5. We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
  6. Nothing stands against you. Only Christ stands now, and he is for you, more for you than you could ever know, for you like nothing else that has ever loved you.
  7. If you sit where Joseph sits, then you also face the choice that Joseph faced. Do you respond with vengeance?
  8. Our Judge (the one who can condemn us) has become our Advocate (the one who doesn’t condemn us) because he is also our Substitute (the one who takes our condemnation).
  9. Free-range Christ is fearful Christ because he is present, speaking, and I just crucified him.
  10. 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.
  11. God has found a way to be God even for the likes of us. He has found a way to save sinners.
  12. Christ has come to make every last aspect of your life the object of his eternal, never-ending, always transitive grace.
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