Tag: Freedom in Christ
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Imagining Freedom
if the son has set you free, you are free indeed. Once freedom has been offered by God himself; once he has our attention, I expect Jesus to spell out, in 5 steps or less, what it might mean to live as a free man. If I’m lucky, maybe all the steps will rhyme, or […]
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The Road to Freedom Via Gunpoint
Years ago, my friend Brian told me a story about Harriet Tubman, a black woman who escaped to the North at the brink of the Civil War. Tubman is famous for her work in the “Underground Railroad,” which consisted largely of her 19 visits back to the South to free slaves during America’s bloodiest time. […]
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Jesus, God-Man, Priest and Sacrifice
Once sins are taken care of for good, there’s no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them. -Hebrews 10:18 Sounds simple enough, right? If you were to pay my car insurance bill before the first, I might do a lot of things but paying the bill anyhow would be the last reaction you might […]
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A Luther Quote and a Plea For Freedom This Weekend
Surely we are named after Christ, not because he is absent from us, but because he dwells in us, that is, because we believe in him and are Christs to one another and do to our neighbors as Christ does to us. But in our day we are taught by the doctrine of men to […]
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