Each day this week, I will be posting a reflection and/or teaching concerning the theology of the cross, followed by a short prayer. May these daily entries help to prepare your heart for contemplation and celebration as we approach Good Friday and Easter Sunday:
"Yet the neglect of the cross in our churches is the result of more than our growing fascination with the subjective and with self-improvement. There is also a growing hostility to the whole notion that Christ suffered as a substitute, that God would desire such a thing, or that God is at all wrathful. Theologians and biblical scholars have reread parts of the Bible-or set it aside-in order to fashion a seemingly more humane religion, a religion of improvement rather than rescue. In such a domesticated version of Christianity, there is no place for a bloody cross."
Mark Dever
Prayer: Father, we thank you for the cross. And we do understand that we are thanking you for a bloody cross. Forgive us for trying to sanitize the cross in an effort to ignore or avoid the seriousness of our sin. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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