It Is Finished – Tony Evans

https://thesonofgod.org/2018/04/08/it-is-finished-sermon-by-tony-evans/

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Waking Up to “Is He Worthy?”: An Apology

http://rabbitroom.com/2018/03/waking-up-to-is-he-worthy-an-apology/

Why You Need to Hear About the Resurrection from Women

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drlaurelshaler/2018/03/why-you-need-to-hear-about-the-resurrection-from-women/

4 Misconceptions about Resurrection…and the Truth

http://seanmcdowell.org/blog/4-misconceptions-about-resurrection-and-the-truth

The Human “Face” of God

“Then, leaving her water jar, the [Samaritan] woman went back to the town and said to the people, ‘Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?'” 1 John 4:28-29

In the Australian edition of Encounter magazine, Ivor Bailey wrote how Trinity College in Cambridge, England, has a long-held tradition of sending students to the slums of South London. At the parish of Camberwell the students sleep in the parish hall and spend a week each year working among the parishioners.

Some years ago a student was helping do some home repairs when the occupant, a bed-ridden elderly lady, asked him if anyone had ever told him that he bore a remarkable likeness to Prince Charles. “Spitting image of him you are,” she said. The student replied, quite truthfully, that no one had ever told him that before. “Strange,” she replied, “even with my poor eyes you look just like him.” To her dying day she probably never realized that her drains were being cleaned by the heir to the throne of England [Prince Charles].~ Ivor Bailey, Encounter, December ’04-January ’05, p 15. ACTS International, Australia. http://www.actsinternational.org/au

Some 2,000 years ago the King of kings came into the world as a baby and most of the people of his day, including the religious leaders, never recognized him as the long-promised Messiah because he didn’t fit the role of what they expected. However, there were those who did see him for who he was. Even the loose-living woman, whom Jesus ministered to at the well in Samaria, was so impressed with the fact that Jesus accepted her that she ran back to her community and shared how this stranger ministered to her and she asked, “Could this be the Christ?”

How sad and how tragic when we don’t recognize Jesus for who he is and for the gift of salvation and eternal life he has for all who come to him.

Suggested prayer: “Dear God, though I cannot see you with my physical eyes, please open the eyes of my understanding so that I recognize you for who you truly are and always be aware of the leading of your Spirit in every area of my life. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus’ name, amen.”

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Puzzles in the Trial of Jesus

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tomhobson/2018/03/puzzles-trial-jesus/

Don’t Cheapen the Cross

With Easter less than two weeks away, there is no better time to focus on the meaning of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Many people are fascinated by this phenomenon,whether or not they are Christian or regular church attenders. In fact, Easter is a holiday that leads many of those individuals to church for a variety of reasons. Regardless of the reason, this is a good thing – we Christians should want people to come and join us on the most holy holiday of the year.

The question is: What message will they hear? What message will we hear?

The truth of the Gospel? How Jesus lived? How he loved? How he died? How he came back to life? Will we hear about His radical grace, along with His radical expectations of His followers?

More: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drlaurelshaler/2018/03/cheapenthecross/