Answer me when I call, O God of my right! You gave me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.

Psalm 4.1

“You gave me room when I was in distress.” This, it seems to me, is the way our God deals with us. He does not [...]

　
“On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices
they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from
the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.”
Luke 24:1-3 [...]

Many of us have been taught that to be saved is to be saved from God’s justice. Divine righteousness, so the story goes, requires damnation and everlasting punishment for our sins. But, thanks to God’s surprising, incomprehensible mercy, we do not after all get what we deserve. Because of Christ’s substitutionary atoning death, God can [...]

For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him (Phil 1.29)

Reading Mark’s Gospel, it seems that Jesus comes to the cross expecting—or at least desiring—vindication, for God to deliver  him, for the kingdom to break in and end once-for-all the [...]