The central motif of Palm Sunday, of Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem in the week before his crucifixion, is humility. While the circumstances change, Jesus is the same at either ends of the week: humble. This provides compelling insight into the character of our lives as Christians: we are humble in every circumstance. We are not …
The Easter reflection bids us see the unity of that which we remember on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Jesus’ death and the forgiveness of our sins. Jesus’ resurrection and the everlasting life he shares with us. The message of the Gospel recorded in Acts stresses the life that we have in Jesus. Sometimes evangelicals …
I grew up in a church that was so low it basically qualified as being underground. For all that it was quite traditional. There was general suspicion of the more ritualistic expressions of other churches (and perhaps a lack of awareness of our own rituals). We would have insisted that anything that looked like a …
The actions of a Christian life can become a substitute for grace. They could become the grounds on which we come to rely on as the reason why God’s blessing falls upon us. But that does not mean those actions are wrong, rather that they are wrongly pursued. Particularly if we live as if our …
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