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The Sacrificial Love of God

For family devotions, Martin Luther once read the account of Abraham offering Isaac on the alter in (Genesis 22). His wife, Katie, said, "I do not believe ...


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The Pious: The Most Shameful

Not Herod, Not Caiaphas, not Pilate, not Judas ever contrived to fasten upon Jesus Christ the reproach of insipidity; that final indignity was left for ...


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Jesus Crucified by People Like Us

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat ...


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Displaying Strength or Weakness?

In the spring of 1991, even before the brief coup in August, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev found his authority and leadership tested on all sides. ...


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A Different Kind of Savior

The accounting department of a large insurance company was working on year-end reports when the computers went down. An emergency call was put in to the ...


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Communion on Black Velvet

When a jeweler displays a fine diamond, he often puts it on black velvet. There, it catches fire from the lights of the room, its beauty multiplied, and ...


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Good Friday and April Fools

There is a strange irony to the 1994 calendar. This Friday is called Good Friday because it marks the anniversary of Jesus' death. But this Friday is ...


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A Gift of Skin

An article in the National Geographic (9/91) tells of a young man from Hanover, Pennsylvania, who was badly burned in a boiler explosion. To save his ...


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God's Supreme Love

In the Cross we may see the dimensions of Divine love. The Cross is not the cross of a man, but the exhibition of the heart of God. At the back of the ...


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The Superglue of Love

As I contemplate the cross, I grasp that its wonder is not in its appearance, but in the Superglue of love that took Christ to the cross and held him ...


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