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On the cross, Jesus prayed a prayer of forgiveness. Quite frankly, it would have made more sense if He said, "Father don't hold them guiltless." You see, Jesus spoke words of grace from the cross of shame. He said, "Father forgive them" even as we hung Him. In other words, there is...

Jesus doesn’t have a tombstone because the stone was removed from His tomb. And that rock is forever engraved with the echo of a God who saves. And because I know my Redeemer lives, I will live to testify of my Redeemer. "Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! That they were engraved on a rock with an iron pen and lead, forever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth" (Job 19:23-25).

The Good News is not just that Jesus lived and died, but that He died and now lives. And that is why our faith isn’t based on fables or feelings, it is based on facts. "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according...

Before we can see the cross as something done for us, we must first see it as something done by us. Meaning, we are guilty as charged, and that is why the first step is to accept the charge of guilt. And once we recognize the shame of what was done by us, we can fully realize the...

Celebrating Holy Week is traditional, but celebrating the Holy One who descended upon that week is the Gospel. "No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown" (William Penn). Enough said! "Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Hosanna in the highest!”" (Matthew 21:9)

The right plea to the Lord is not “get me out of this trouble” but “get this trouble out of me.” You see, we often pray for deliverance from trials, but we ought to pray for endurance to go through the trial, while at the same time, asking the Lord to develop...