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Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 253-260 You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2.5 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 249-253 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 241-246 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 234-241 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ pg. 223-234 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 212-222 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 207-212 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 1 John 3.16 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 200-207 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1.14 One must not miss the Old Testament allusions. God’s glory which overshadowed and filled the tabernacle in […]

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 189-199 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall […]