Have you ever gotten to an interstate toll booth and the person ahead of you paid yours in addition to their own? You arrive at the booth, but no payment is due. Someone else had already done that. In a much more profound way, Jesus paid our debt that we could never repay and that’s […]
On the church calendar, today is Good Friday and our eyes turn to the Cross. The Crucifixion is the clearest display of God’s love toward us. God couldn’t just let hell win and claim the souls of men without offering mankind a way out … but He had to do it while still maintaining both […]
Jesus is one day closer to His Crucifixion and takes time for an act of service and the giving of a new command to love each other as He has loved us. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. (John 13:34) This […]
In the Passion Week timeline, Jesus is within hours of dying on a Cross for the sins of humanity. Why did He go through with it? The only answer is that there was no other way. . In His humanity, Jesus prayed to His Father about whether there were other possibilities. “Going a little farther, […]
The events of “Passion Week” always strike me as amazing. The fickleness of crowds, the political realities, the pressures of the public, the elites with their grip upon the lives of people who still hold them to be leaders, and then here’s Jesus. Countercultural. Resolute. Knowing the Truth. Marching into Jerusalem knowing the Cross is […]
We see it so often on placards at the end zones of football games and on street corners with urban preachers: John 3:16. It’s become like a slogan, almost losing its impact from such common use. The Word of God is not a slogan and John 3:16 is not at all trite. It’s not simplistic […]
The final week of our Lent Devotional Series “Seeing His Love with New Eyes” resumes tomorrow after today’s Palm Sunday Sabbath rest to meditate and worship. Today, reflect on the majesty of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is eternally Love and He is forever King of our hearts.
Yesterday, we said that this Judgment at the Great White Throne is a tale of two books and two outcomes. The redeemed will look upon Jesus who is seated for judgment upon mankind and they will be filled with inexpressible joy, infinite love, and gratitude for His mercy and grace at their being included in […]
Recorded in the Book of Revelation, the Apostle John had a vision of the Final Judgment, what is sometimes called the Great White Throne Judgment. It can be divided by two books: The book of deeds and the Book of Life. Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a Great White Throne and Him who was seated […]
It’s easy to see the Image of God that He placed in us is of tremendous worth by this undeniable fact: God sacrificed all to save it. He did that in Jesus Christ and His shed blood. But that wasn’t the first sacrifice, in a sense; it simply confirmed it. The first sacrifice was God’s […]
