Theology of the Cross (110)
  1. God is not a tool in our hands. He does not exist to serve our goals, our metrics, or our platforms.
  2. The gospel isn’t for the strong but people who know they aren’t.
  3. For Bonhoeffer, Christ crucified, and the cross of the Christian life were not of peripheral importance, but foundational.
  4. Just as each servant was sent to bring back the Master’s fruit, so did God send his prophets to bring back the fruits of a life shaped by the Word.
  5. The way of the cross is the actual way of victory. Jesus absorbs the worst of what humanity and even the devil can do to him, and he spurns the shame of it all.
  6. As soon as people understand what crucifixion means, the cross becomes offensive.
  7. This is the fourth 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.
  8. On second thought: Keep Lent, but sacrifice your concept of it.
  9. The Psalm now is this: as Christ suffered and then was exalted, so we are also in him.
  10. Devoid of the gospel of Jesus’s death and resurrection, sufferers are left to frantically run the halls of self-salvation, turning this way and that but never getting anywhere.
  11. The great lie of addiction is that suffering must be fled, must be numbed, must be drowned out by any means necessary.
  12. Despite the mathematical incongruity, the church confesses that Christ is one hundred percent human and one hundred percent divine.
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