THE SWEET GIFTS of JESUS' VICTORY
The Cross is a block the Jew trips upon. They could not discern the Son of God, yet they looked for miracles.
The Cross is a block the Jew trips upon. They could not discern the Son of God, yet they looked for miracles.
Palm Sunday is very curious, it is painted from a white and black palette. Jesus is paraded before His people.
Eden was pure. Eden cried. Eden was blocked and then destroyed. God has only walked in two gardens of His entire world, Eden and Gethsemane.
Martin Luther said about the book of Esther, ‘I am so hostile to it that I wish it did not exist’.
Our streets boil over with hate, crime, anger and sheer hopelessness. (Franklin Graham) Ever more the world wearies. Weariness thrusts the human soul forward into temptation.
It’s been called ‘the Fifth Gospel’. Psalm 22 is unparalleled amongst the psalms in its prophetic portrayal of the suffering of the Lord Jesus on the cross.
The Bible contains twin gardens that are notable in eternity. The first Adam 'lived' in one, and the second Adam 'died' in one.
"We can become so familiar with the story of the cross that we forget its foolishness. # But, first consider Gideon.
It seems, whatever the religion, there is some kind of ‘getting clean’ ritual.
Why do all our highest ideals inevitably disappoint us? It happened to God first. Genesis 3 vividly describes the ‘fall of humanity’.