Category Archives: Grace and Forgiveness

“Mission Creep”

Posted on 8 May, 2012 by

You don’t weep for someone who is carrying out His plan, on His way to His greatest victory. The Cross was not “mission creep,” something that wasn’t planned. Continue reading →

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Wounded for our Transgressions

Posted on 7 April, 2012 by

Isaiah 53:4-6 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement … Continue reading →

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O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

Posted on 6 April, 2012 by

O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down, Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown; O sacred Head, what glory, what bliss till now was Thine! Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee … Continue reading →

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His World, His Cross

Posted on 19 March, 2012 by

Elizabeth Goldsmith (in God Can Be Trusted), after a visit to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, describing Dali’s painting of the crucifixion (emphasis added): The Son of God looking out over His world from His cross

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Letter to a Shipwrecked Christian

Posted on 23 February, 2012 by

All is never over in the service of the Lord. Don’t stay shipwrecked. You’re needed on board, and your Master expects you on board. The only thing worse than being shipwrecked is staying there. Continue reading →

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What Did Christ Do to My Sin?

Posted on 31 January, 2012 by

What did Christ do to my sin? This sermon was NOT a traditional three-point sermon. It couldn’t be — there were too many things that Christ did to my sin for that to be possible. He did absolutely everything that needed to be done to set me free from it forever.
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Something I was Thinking About….

Posted on 3 September, 2011 by

….thinking about it, while preparing for my message tomorrow. In the history of God (if we can even speak of such a thing), what is the greatest “crisis”?  Is it when Christ hung on the Cross, bearing our sins, and … Continue reading →

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