... Where is God? Where is God in all this?” someone asks. Softly came the reply, “Up there. Up there on the gallows with that boy.” There is a line in Marc Connelly’s “Green Pastures,” where God says to the angel Gabriel, “Even bein’ God ain’t a bed of roses!” Since Calvary we know it is a crown of thorns! That is the price God was willing to pay to win a wayward world back to Himself. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.” The problem in the Christian Faith is not ...
... he tells you" (3:19, 22 TEV). To use a slang phrase, Peter had now "tossed the ball into their court" and seemingly said in Marc Antony’s phrase, "There let it work!" Will the outcome of the miracle - in the words of the Scottish lad - will it "move"? Or, will the ... for the salvation of humanity. Anything they could do for themselves paled into insignificance in the face of a challenge and price as great as this. Remember Sidney Carton at the close of Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, as he went ...
... looking over the palace's roof and even he would have to strain his neck to do so. The Russian-born artist Marc Chagall captures this moment in his painting "David and Bathsheba." We see Bathsheba modestly bathing while David peers over the ledge, craning ... , he didn't, but he could never again understand himself as God's gift to creation. He sought forgiveness. He paid the price of forgiveness and God restored him. HERE WE SEE TWO REACTIONS TO SIN. Jesus confronts the priests and they plot his execution. ...
