Good morning and happy Monday. Grace to you today.
(Yesterday on the blog: The Penitential Tear)
It Was Finished Upon That Cross
CityAlight released a beautiful new hymn over the weekend, just on time for Easter. I’m sure you’ll be blessed by it. “Death was once my great opponent / Fear once had a hold on me / But the Son who died to save us / Rose that we would be free indeed! / Free from every plan of darkness / Free to live and free to love / Death is dead and Christ is risen! / It was finished upon that cross.”
Ed Welch: “A phrase like ‘in the name of Jesus’ is too crammed with meaning to be spoken with little awareness of what is being said.”
I’m just catching up with some of the clips from the documentary American Gospel: Christ Crucified and thought I’d share this one which refutes the idea that penal substitutionary atonement makes God into a cosmic child abuser.
Five Truths About the Body of Christ
“The Bible’s teaching about the church isn’t easy to grasp. The church is a ‘mystery.’ It
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