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Devotional - Day 5

Devotional – Day 5

Go To Jesus I have learned that nothing in the Bible is a coincidence. Everything written in there, and the way in which it is written has meaning and purpose behind it. John 4 is one of my favourite chapters –  mainly because I love the story of the Samaritan woman. Jesus goes to a town in Samaria especially to meet this woman, and that encounter completely changes her life. But something I have…

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Religion

Religion doesn't kill people, people do.

(Another essay I found in the drafts folder.)

Just saw another of those blog essays making the social media rounds that asserts that Christianity grew into a world religion because it killed its way to the top. It describes inquisitions and crusades and other bloody events. But the problem is that they have the timeline wrong. Christianity spread without many inquisitions at all. Those came later…

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Pray that The Lord would give you eyes to see the hook behind that succulent, delicious bait.

The Saving 

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Morning Devotion: The detestable cross

So detestable was this spectacle that the early church did not even portray the cross in art until crucifixion itself had been outlawed for 100 years; some 300 years after Christ was killed in this way.

Before then, the cross was too real; too offensive; too grotesque; too much a part of their experience. Before that, the blood on the cross still too wet, and the cries of those crucified still resonated too loudly in their ears; for them to take up pen and try and replicate.

Now, the cross is much more tame. Now, our cross symbolically bears not even a Christ: not even tonight. Now, maybe we venture out to be shocked; to be reminded; to have images brought up and facts of the death of Christ read and recounted. Tonight alone perhaps we accept the speaking of such monstrosity; tonight alone we allow the guilt and sorrow to seep in.

Tonight, you have come out to feel the gravity. Tonight, we do not temper our trembling. We know that this darkest night ends with Easter morning’s greatest light. We know that by this act, which seems to reek only of despair and defeat, there is actually the greatest of victory and triumph.

We KNOW, people of God, that tonight, our sins are washed in the blood of the lamb!

We KNOW that because Jesus bears the blast of God’s wraith that you receive God's love.p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }

-Aj Neugebauer LCMS pastor