Sitting Under the Kudzu Vine

So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head.

Category: God

American Culture / American Decline / Christian Spirituality / Church / Culture / God / Love / Meaning of Life / The Sovereignity of God / Wisdom

BE STILL

Someone might say, I don’t believe in God or I don’t have time for God. It seems that everyone wants personal peace and meaning. Often we think we have peace but it is just a gaze bandage covering the wounds of our soul. We dare not be still lest the truth overwhelms us. Why live like that? It is the artificial world we have created. Sooner or later that world we collapse, it will fall into the darkness of meaninglessness and you will fall into the hole along with it.

Atonement / Baptists / Christian Life / Easter / God / Grace / Imago Dei / Justification / Resurrection / The Divinity of Jesus / the Risen Lord / Theology / Trinity

THE ATONEMENT

It may very well be that the atonement is the forgotten doctrine of our age. We forget it at our peril. It is a corrective to so much of the syncretistic, new age Christianity that circulates today which never acknowledges our sin problem and God unfathomable grace that saves us. Jesus, the sinless one, did not come to die with us, but for us. He accomplishment on the cross will stand for eternity. And those who come to him by faith are irrevocably, and eternally justified by the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, God in the flesh. We stand before God, redeemed because of this act of sacrifice on the cross. The atonement gives us true freedom and it gives us hope