Besides the suffering for following Christ, there are the hardships of the cross and self-denial that believers are called to, and the hard work of putting sin to death. The writer to the Hebrews even speaks of resisting sin to the point of shedding your blood (Hebrews 12:4). The life of the disciple is not [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cross’
The Hard Work of Putting Sin to Death
Posted in Lundgaard, Kris, tagged Cross, Followng Christ, Hebrews 12, Sin on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Cross We Never Expected and One We Find Hardest to Bear
Posted in Manning, Brennan, tagged Cross, Failure on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The readiness to risk failure: Many of us are haunted by our failure to have done with our lives what we longed to accomplish. The disparity between our ideal self and our real self, the grain specter of past infidelities, the awareness that I am not living what I believe, the relentless pressure of conformity, [...]
What Does it Mean to Risk Everything on Jesus?
Posted in Manning, Brennan, tagged Abortion, Cross, Faithfulness, God's Word, Gospel, Nuclear Weapons, Prince of Peace, Sins on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Risking everything on Jesus: the ragamuffin gospel says we can’t lose, because we have nothing to lose. Faithfulness to Jesus implies that with all our sins, scars and insecurities, we stand with Him; that we are formed and informed by His Word; that we acknowledge that abortion and nuclear weapons are two sides of tame [...]
Why We’re Unwilling to Admit Failure in Our Life
Posted in Manning, Brennan, tagged Christianity, Cross, Redemptioin, Sin on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You know, in spite of the fact that Christianity speaks of the cross, redemption and sin, we’re unwilling to admit failure in our life. Why? Partly because it’s human nature’s defense mechanism against its own inadequacies. But even more so, its because of the successful image our culture demands of us. there are some real [...]
What Is Bitterness, We Have Made Tolerable
Posted in Moltman, Jurgan, tagged Cross, Crucifixion, Salvation on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have made the bitterness of the cross, the revelation of God in the cross of Jesus Christ, tolerable to ourselves by learning to understand it as a necessity for the process of salvation.
- Jurgan Moltman, The Crucified Christ
as quoted by Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel, copyright 1990, 2000, page 106
We Can Know that God is Truly Immanuel – God With Us
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Christianity, Cross, Immanuel, Jesus is God, Sufferings on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, if we embrace the Christian teaching teaching that Jesus is God and that he went to the Cross, then we have deep consolation and strength to face the brutal realities of life on earth. We can know that God is truly Immanuel - God with us – even in our worst sufferings
- Tim Keller, Reason for [...]
That We Might Have the Cup of the Father’s Joy
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Cross, Justice, Luke 15, Prodigal Son on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There Jesus was stripped naked of his robe and dignity so that we could be clothed with a dignity and standing we don’t deserve. On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God’s family freely by grace. There Jesus drank the cup of eternal justice so that [...]
