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March 18, 2023

Day 22: Reconciliation

Day  22: Reconciliation

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 […]

March 17, 2023

Day 21: Justification

Day 21: Justification

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 179-189 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the […]

March 16, 2023

Day 20: Redemption

Day 20: Redemption

Reading: The Cross of Christ pg. 173-179  For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. Mark 10.45 We now move from propitiation to redemption. In seeking to understand the achievement of the cross, the imagery changes from temple court […]

March 15, 2023

Day 19: Propitiation

Day 19: Propitiation

Reading: The Cross of Christ pg. 165-173 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God […]

March 15, 2023

Forgiveness is an act of patience

Forgiveness is an act of patience

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. | Colossians 3:12–13 Every week, I have the opportunity to sit in […]

March 14, 2023

Day 18: God in Christ

Day 18: God in Christ

Reading: The Cross of Christ pg. 156-162 …that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that […]

March 13, 2023

Day 17: Who is the Substitute?

Day 17: Who is the Substitute?

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 149-155 For he grew up before him like a young plant,and like a root out of dry ground;he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,and no beauty that we should desire him.He was despised and rejected by men,a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;and […]

March 11, 2023

Day 16: The Passover and “Sin Bearing”

Day 16: The Passover and “Sin Bearing”

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg, 139-149 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will […]

March 11, 2023

How we operate

How we operate

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of […]

March 10, 2023

Day 15: The Self Substitution of God

Day 15: The Self Substitution of God

Reading: The Cross of Christ pg. 133-138 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood […]

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