There are many dates that are etched into our memory. We hear July 4, 1776 and think indpendence, December 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor, and on and on you could go. Then we have arbitrary dates that mark historical events that are difficult to date like December 25 and Christmas. But there is another date...

When I say the word ‘Easter’, what is the first thing that pops into your head? Eggs? Easter Bunny? New clothes? Sunday afternoon dinner with family? One of the only two days you gather with the Lord’s people? I wonder about for how many of us Easter is about the cross of Christ. F...

Growing up in the Reformed tradition, we did not observe the season of Lent.  As with crucifixes, vestments, and other traditions within the Christian church, Lent was simply ‘too Catholic’ to be observed within our circles.  At first blush, I suppose such an objection may seem valid, ...

“A body you have prepared for me” In God’s scheme of redemption the Law was never sufficient to deal with man’s most basic flaw, sin. The Law and the sacrificial system were not able to make a sinner whole. The sacrifice of bulls and goats and the law that required them were ...

Well, well, well, it's going to be awfully hard for the apologists for Hamas to explain how it's our Christian duty to pity the poor Islamists after this news: The Hamas parliament in the Gaza Strip voted in favor of......

This just tears me up. I can't imagine what Mary went through. Knowing it had to happen ... but still knowing He was her son, her baby, and having to watch what He had to go through and knowing she couldn't stop it even if she wanted to. And, I can't imagine anyone seeing what our Savior went throug...

In comments earlier today, Spencer Troxell, posed an important question: I wish I understood why it was necessary for Jesus to be crucified for the sins of the world. Can you explain this to me without saying "For the wages of sin are death, which is the answer that I'm always given, although it's n...

The Muslim position seems to be no. God wouldn't let something like that happen to a true prophet....

The crucifixion, which ended with the triumphant cry, “It is finished” (John 19.30), was the offering of the all-sufficient sacrifice for the atonement of all sinners.  The Man on the cross was the Lamb of God, who bears the sins of the world to carry them away from the face of God.  T...

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Before Jesus was crucified, He stood before Pilate, the Roman authority in Jerusalem , to be questioned.   “Then Pilate said to him, ‘So you are a king?’  Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king.  For this purpose I was born and for this p...