I really didn’t want to write about sin today, but I think it’s what God is prompting me to write. As Christ-followers, we deal with sin. You do. I do. We all do. It’s a daily fight to keep my eyes fixed on Jesus. This morning, my quiet time reading was out of Romans 8, one of my devotional books talked about sin, and recent our chapel message from Eric Geiger was about the consequences of sin. It’s so real. Today I’m reminded that I’m a sinner, but I have been saved by grace. We live in the tension between the reality that sin is … [Read more...]
Easter is About Justice
But wait—Easter is about us, right? It’s about our hope? It’s about our security? It’s about our salvation? Yes, and no. The whole Easter thing, in a bigger sense, is about justice. It’s about God. It’s about God re-affirming His commitment to justice and confirming His perfect nature again. Coming into the very first Good Friday, the perfection of God was in doubt. See if God is perfect, then all His attributes must be the perfect expression of that attribute. Take His love for example. We tend to think of love as we think … [Read more...]