Weekly insights from Chuck Colson and great saints of the past and present

Jesus Christ is the motive and end of all our worship. His death and resurrection are the power of God for our salvation. Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift!

“This is why the cross is the symbol of Christianity. It marks the dividing line between man’s futile efforts to achieve God’s righteousness and God’s gracious act in sending Christ to redeem all who will follow. It represents the most decisive moment in history, when God answered the great human dilemma that we have all sinned and yearn for forgiveness: God took upon Himself our sins to set us free. It is where justice and mercy meet.”
-Chuck Colson, The Faith

“And so it was that two marvels came to pass at once, that the death of all was accomplished in the Lord’s body, and that death and corruption were wholly done away by reason of the Word that was united with it. For there was need of death, and death must needs be suffered on behalf of all, that the debt owing from all might be paid.”
-Athansasius, On the Incarnation of the Word

“He says, ‘He [Christ] who knew no sin, he [God] made to be sin for us.’ The God to whom we are to be reconciled has thus made him the sacrifice for sin by which we may be reconciled. He himself is therefore sin as we ourselves are righteousness – not our own but God’s, not in ourselves but in him. Just as he was sin – not his own but ours, rooted not in himself but in us – so he showed forth through the likeness of sinful flesh, in which he was crucified, that since sin was not in him he could then, so to say, die to sin by dying in the flesh, which was the ‘likeness of sin.’”
-Augustine, Enchiridion

“For the sun is that which we see rising daily at His command, but it will never reign, nor will its splendour las forever. And all those who worship it will be subject to grievous punishment. We, however, worship the true sun, Christ, who will never perish. Nor will those who do his bidding, but they will continue forever just as Christ will continue forever, He Who reigns with God the Father Almighty and with the Holy Spirit before time and now and in eternity. Amen.”
-Patrick, Confession

“The spring is a lively emblem of the resurrection: after a long winter we see the leafless trees and dry stocks (at the approach of the sun) to resume their former vigor and beauty in a more ample manner than what they lost in the autumn; so shall it be at that great day after a long vacation, when the Sun of righteousness shall appear; those dry bones shall arise in far more glory than that which they lost at their creation, and in this transcends the spring that their leaf shall never fail nor their sap decline.”
-Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
-2 Corinthians 5:21

For more insight to this subject, get the book, Christians at the Cross: Finding Hope in the Life, Death, and Resurrection or Jesus, by N. T. Wright, from our online store.

Or listen to the article, “Home Amid the Wounds,” by D. A. Carson.