Understanding atonement Lent 2024 - Part 15, Easter This Lent, I reflected deeply on the profound significance of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, exploring the various theories embraced or historically cherished by Christian churches. Now it's Easter and I am continuing this reflection from trauma to resurrection. Changing what you believe about atonement is not …
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Easter Sunday 2023 If you have seen the title and are looking for porn, I apologise for disappointing you. The title is about the practice in early Christianity to baptise people on Easter Sunday when those baptisms would have been done naked. After the baptism, they would be given white baptismal robes to wear, not …
40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 41 Easter Sunday 2022 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,1 Corinthians 15:3-4 ESVUK Happy Easter …
The King’s actions The final journey It seems a strange passage to read on the Christmas Bank Holiday, one which talks about Jesus talking about his coming death. But if we are going to think about Jesus being Emmanuel, God with us, we cannot do it justice without thinking about why he came. The song …
What do we make of this day? A day that is silent in the Bible, Jesus is executed and laid in the tomb on Good Friday, and then on the first day of the week, Sunday, women arrive at the tomb to bring spices to prepare the body, which in Middle Eastern heat would be …
I wish all those reading this a happy and blessed Easter. Hallelujah, Christ is risen. This is really my post number 41 in the 40 blogs of Lent, because the story of the crucifixion does not end in a tomb. Easter, the resurrection of Jesus, is how the story of the death of Jesus ends. …
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Could it be true? Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 12th April 2020 An unusual Easter Sunday. With the country in lockdown and churches closed, there was no joining together in worship this morning. But we do have YouTube, and we have a service ready to broadcast. Two false starts here, te tittle round spinny thing …
Easter Sunday. Hallelujah! Christ is risen Holy Week and Creation: a comparison God's new love song for his creation and mankind's love song for creation Happy Easter The first chapter of the Book of Genesis is theology, but not theology as we know it. It is not the theology of learned people using the academic …
Emmanuel or Immanuel Names of God - Part God is with us I am writing this in th Easter period because there is so much more to God being with us than the Christmas story. Jesus came, God in human form as prophesied by Isaiah, showed us how to live, taught us that love is …
Matthew's Passion: Conspiracy Easter: 2 Matthew 28:11-15 Jesus is risen, but in this version of the story has yet to meet his disciples. The story goes back to the guards on the tomb, who wer put there to prevent grave robbers, and instead become involved in the conspiracy. The guards' story does not hold up. …
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