Death Died When Christ Rose
"The empty tomb of Christ is the cradle of the Christian church. " ~ W. R. Nicoll The resurrection is Christianity's make or break day.
"The empty tomb of Christ is the cradle of the Christian church. " ~ W. R. Nicoll The resurrection is Christianity's make or break day.
At 3pm on that first Good Friday Jesus threw His final pain-filled cry into all time.
By that first Good Friday, as a chilled dawn rose upon God's Son, blind pride had already smothered justice. Jerusalem's violent streets had screamed for His innocent blood.
It is no surprise that the Roman army presided at Jesus' crucifixion. The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, "Surely this was a righteous man.
Easter feeds the soul far longer than its eggs feed the body. Annually Easter pops up to help mankind's unbelief, and feed his good ones.
NOTE TO READER: today's SoulSnack could have been penned last night, but it is nigh 200 years old.
Don't doubt the Cross, refuse to dismiss Calvary. Lay hold of the terrible Cross. Claim His victory.
If I am dead, restless, troubled, enslaved or in chains my mortal coil is hindered in its walk with Jesus. This He does not desire.
Unicorns have stolen human imaginations since the 6th century BC. A horse with a spiralling horn even variously appears in the Bible.
Recently the heavens had been so strange, so dark, so concealed and so empty.