One of my favorite movies of all time is Braveheart – the epic drama of William Wallace, a common Scot, fighting out of love to defeat Longshanks and his English rise in power and dominance over the Scottish people. In multiple battle scenes, scores of men ready for battle. Hatred
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked… But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you have been
So what’s the good news? The good news, or the gospel, is that Jesus Christ came to fix what we broke. He lived the perfect life you and I are expected to live (1 Peter 1:18-21), but obviously haven’t and can’t. And He died the punishing death that you and
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel,” Paul wrote to the Romans, “for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16). I join Paul in saying “I am not ashamed of the gospel.”
“Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” He said, “But I will be with
