This is the first 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.
04/11/25
Every earthly kingdom meets its end. All empires crumble and fall. But from the beginning, the kingdom of God, which Christ would rule, was said to be eternal.
04/10/25
The goal isn't to give kids a balanced or equal measure of each but to give the right medicine at the right time.
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Justin Rossow
06/19/22
The question is, how are you going to live out your life as someone who has taken up the Robe of Freedom?
06/12/22
Paul wants us to know the radical identity shift that takes place when you put on Christ. You are free.
06/05/22
Our daily remembrance of baptism, our daily dying and rising, is a daily joining to Jesus and His death and resurrection for us.
05/29/22
How might your preaching of the work of the Spirit expand your own view of the Spirit’s work, and help your hearers gain an appreciation for the Holy Spirit’s activity in their lives beyond a standalone celebration, one day a year?
04/17/22
You need an apocalyptic ‘decoder ring’ to figure out what is going on in Revelation.
04/10/22
The sacrifice of Jesus stands completed, once for all, and we believe in the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
04/03/22
In the middle of the cosmic, creedal story, Paul places us, you and me, and all of those who belong by faith to Christ.
03/26/22
Paul puts everything he has gained by his religious life and training (verses 4-7) onto the scales opposite life with Christ and finds a real bargain.
02/20/22
Moses should receive honor, Jesus even more. Moses should be followed, Jesus even more. Moses should be trusted, Jesus most of all and above all else.
02/12/22
Death is not the continuation of an adventure; death is being planted in the ground. The adventure belongs to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
02/05/22
The foundation of the faith Paul wants you to cling to is not an abstract principle, but a human body: the human body of Jesus, that once was a corpse, and now is alive forever more.
01/30/22
Paul imagines a time when we are no longer immature children, seeking to show off spiritually, but instead demonstrating the maturity that comes from edifying others.
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