"I'm going to pour the entire ocean into this hole".
The boy replied, "And neither can you fit the Trinity in your tiny little brain".
The National Retail Federation also points out that the holiday meant to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ has been increasingly commercialized in the past decade, with Easter spending rising to $18.4 billion in 2017, the highest it has ever been. I have to say, we were stumped by this one. I understand how darkens pervades the world without the presence of Christ and how apt the name "light of the world" is for him.
Have mercy on us, Lord, forgive us our sins. Having learned from St Augustine's experience, I stopped myself trying to figure that out.
If today's meditation were summarized in a single thought to help guide you on your life in Christ, it would be this: that Jesus Christ is joy, and where Jesus is, there is joy.
Apart from "sufferings", we get another word, "love" and it is seen through Christ's whole life.
To believe in the incarnation is to believe that God was born into real physical flesh, lived in real physical flesh, died in real physical flesh, and rose in real physical flesh.
But Calvary had to happen because God established the necessity of shedding blood for the forgiveness of sins (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22).
Christian faith revolves around the central historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus who was executed by crucifixion. In terms of tragedy and comedy, the Old Testament is like a tragedy, but the New Testament is like a comedy.
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Check out too Psalm 22: 16-18. That doesn't make sense at the outset I know. I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.
The key word is incarnation.
I love the title of this weekly column. We believe that in the incarnation the word was made flesh. However, she acknowledged that there are a lot of Christians who do not believe in life after death, while a lot of non-religious do.
An op/ed article in The New York Times by Peter Wehner observed that "the Incarnation is also evidence that God is not an impersonal, indifferent deity". It's the question asked at the darkest moment of Jesus' life, which many would say is the darkest moment of history. "This can be seen in the moving events surrounding the death of Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary of Bethany". That's a way of saying that it's then an event only about human consciousness and not also about the cosmos. For those who get tired of hearing about battles for the Bible, let me remind you that eternal vigilance is necessary to preserve the truth.
Wehner observed that Jesus "was forced to confront doubt". The religious community rejected His message and the legal system along with the demands from the general population, overwhelmingly agreed to publicly execute Him without a reason other than they hated Him. He knows how that feels because Jesus has endured all the same kinds of trials that we endure daily.
Why? Because in our trials, in our suffering, in our sorrow.
Christianity stands and falls on Jesus walking out of his tomb.
"And all of God's sovereignty is mediated through Christ Jesus, who is the mediator of God's authority in every domain in this age until he has crushed his last enemy", Piper wrote. The extraordinary power of the cross serves as the bridge between a broken people and God. Easter is about many things.
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