“Death by Love: Reflections on the Cross.” Revisiting who Jesus and the cross is, deserves more attention today than most people would like to think. Over time Christians arguably could begin losing sight of the cross, what it meant and what it means for us today. Mark Driscoll brings us back to the fundamental aspects of the cross and the practical implications of a proper view of the cross in this day. Some church movements today focus on the incarnation, leaving out the cross and the exaltation of Jesus Christ and therefore undermine the deity of Jesus Christ and the gospel. The correct view of the cross gives way to the correct view of the atonement and ultimately giving us the clear picture of the gospel that we are to preach today. Driscoll looks at penal substitution, propitiation and expiation. By gaining the fuller picture of the cross we may be faithful in building God’s Kingdom with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 34:18 - “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the crushed in spirit.”

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begins @ about 7.00 of this clip.

Gold.

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via Dave Ferrier’s blog, whom I already miss terribly

I laughed muchly (yeah, I said it) at this, & understand completely.

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Somewhere, somehow, in the last two years, this 1980’s gem from Rick Astley re-emerged.

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From this morning at Blackhawk Ministries…

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“What does this desire and this inability of ours proclaim to us but that there was once in man a genuine happiness, of which nothing now survives but the mark and the empty outline; and this he vainly tries to fill from everything that lies around him, seeking from things that are not there the help that he does not get from those that are present? Yet they are quite incapable of filling the gap, because this infinite gulf can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object — that is, God, Himself.”

Blaise Pascal Pensees

If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God?

Blaise Pascal

God is none other than the Saviour of our wretchedness. So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities… Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified him, but have glorified themselves. 
          … Blaise Pascal

“Now peacemaking is a divine work. For peace means reconciliation, and God is the author of peace and of reconciliation. … It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the particular blessing which attaches to peacemakers is that “they shall be called sons of God.” For they are seeking to do what their Father has done, loving people with his love.”
 John R. W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount

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Song: “All These Things That I’ve Done” by The Killers

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/>Alyssa Craig has been talking about this for some time now. I’ve finally spent some time with this free album, and have listened to little else for the past several days.

Thank you, Alyssa.

Thank you, Phil.

Thank you, Jesus most of all.

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An incredible shot from Radiohead’s set at the All Points West Festival

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