Did Christ die to suppress or appease God’s anger? But that’s a horrible picture of God. What kind of God would take out his frustrations on his Son? Imagine how the newspapers would treat that today if a human father was so incensed with anger that he had his son tortured to death. [...]
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Easter takes us back to the secret of our future. It’s Jesus Christ, because it’s through him and him alone that God adopts us as his children, Ephesians 1:5 - ”In love God predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ.”
But how does God adopt us through Jesus Christ? Romans [...]
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There are two steps in the process of our adoption as God’s children. The first one was Christ’s death, because, as Paul writes in Colossians 1:21 - “you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour.”
Jesus died to remove a huge obstacle that stood in [...]
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Easter answers the question “What happens to us in the end?” because it takes us back to the time when “the end” was decided, and what the purpose would be for creating humans in the first place.
It was decided before our world began, Ephesians 1:4-5 - “For he chose us in him [...]
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Since Easter is close at hand, I’ve lifted three Easter-related articles to the top of the list on the Articles page above, the three being: 1) The boldness of the Cross, 2) “Who do you say I am?” and 3) Proof that Jesus is alive.
All three articles have been published in a local newspaper [...]
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