Jesus forgave his murderers while they were murdering him. Not after they confessed, repented, said some sinner’s prayer, accepted Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior, or anything else. While they were still murdering him, Jesus forgave them! I think the rest of us can relax and stop worrying about going to hell and rather […]
The Bible is a magnificent human record of people elevating the value of each other. There’s a record of mavericks moving the cheese, raising the bar, turning the dial up, ratcheting the next click upward and onward. Read it with those lenses. All the writers and passages are not equals. There are those arguing to […]
The Cross is not what God inflicts upon Jesus in order to forgive, the Cross is what God endures in Jesus as God graciously forgives us. This dispels the notion that God punished Jesus for us, but rather suffered the worst humanity can dish out in Jesus and forgives our ignorance. — Pastor Paul Bergmann […]