Tag: Cross
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Cross of Mercy
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Matthew 9:13 Jesus twice quotes Hosea 6:6 here and in Matthew 12:7. The message of Hosea is that God does not desire sacrifices, even though many believed that sacrifices were God’s…
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Cross of Love
But we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness. 1 Corinthians 1:23 Paul’s statement about the difficulties people have in accepting the message of a crucified Lord is a lament, not a call to action. If the cross is problematic to understand, may it be so for the right reasons…