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: Trinity

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The Dreaded God: Encounter With the Holy

When we think about God, we need to see and understand that He is like no other.  He is totally separate from all of creation.  God is transcendent above all the universe.  His being is frightening and causes fear in His presence because of our finite nature and because of our sin. And yet, we crave to know God’s holiness. 

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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