Christmas is not only about a cradle in Bethlehem, it’s also about a cross outside Jerusalem where salvation was won for us.
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This is the third installment in our series, From Eden to Easter: Life and Death in the Garden. Each day throughout Holy Week, we will take a special look at the gardens and wildernesses of Scripture, and in particular, these scenes' connections to Christ's redemption won for us on the cross.
This is the third article in a special three-part Advent series on how Jesus is our prophet, priest, and king.
Defy the world with its “oughts” and “shoulds,” for in Christ, it is finished.
He was rooted in his own tradition but gracious with others when they wanted to learn about his faith or their own.
Psalm 98, with its promise of a sea and mountains singing, takes these imposing natural features and turns them into a praise choir.
Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.
The story of Juneteenth is one of living between proclamation and emancipation, and the story of the Christian faith is one of living in that same tension.
This story of despair met with the hope of the gospel is rightly told by many during the holiday season.
Understanding that I am completely free in Christ allows me to read the injunction to “love my neighbor as myself” as a promise instead of a threat.
How did we get love and romance associated with Valentine and his likely mid-February death?
It is that Christmas carol, the curious “We Three Kings” that we are looking at today in our examination of the origin and meaning of Christmas carols.
As Christians, we are not cold ascetics, depriving ourselves in the here and hereafter. We are given good things from our heavenly Father in heaven, and even a foretaste of the things to come.