He is Risen

picture credit: Bath United Church of Christ

From our home to you, wherever you are living or reading this - a very blessed Easter Day today. It is common for Christians to greet each other today with "He is risen", responded to with "He is risen indeed" - simply because we believe that on the third day after Jesus was crucified, he rose from the dead.

This is what actually separates Christian belief and faith from all other religious systems. For me, this Easter day, "He is risen" finds me thinking about what this means for me - a believer for certain - yet very human - making sense and finding application for what a risen Jesus means for me, for the way I can know God, have relationship with Him, and demonstrate this all to people my life is blessed to touch and be touched by.

For you - We wish you much love, and a prayer that the risen Jesus will be as real and apparent in your life as he is in ours.

Christ our Substitute

Already Not Yet is the new blog of Peter Cockrell, pastor of the church we are attending in Worthing. He quotes Leon Morris, who writes words that very effectively describe how I reflected yesterday, being Good Friday...

“To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If my sins and my guilt are not transferred to Him, if he did not take them upon Himself, then surely they remain with me. If He did not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still hangs over me. There is no other possibility.”

From The Cross in the New Testament by Leon Morris