Sermons on Darkness
The Atonement as the Commencement of Mission (Isaiah 6:1-13)
The Incarnation of God means mission, creates mission, demands mission. And the atonement of the Incarnated Christ commences our mission of divine declaration. To receive in and from Jesus, by virtue of his death and resurrection, an atoning, covering, for sin and guilt, demands that we consider…
From Darkness, Light (Luke 23:44-49)
And how wondrous the love and salvation of God. That He, knowing humanity couldn’t come near to Him, lest they die, knowing they couldn’t be far from him, lest they die, eagerly desired for them to know him. To love him. To be loved by him. To know the fulness of what a relationship with the Living God could be. And was willing to die the most horrific and ignominious…
Living in Righteousness When Darkness Approaches (Luke 22:47-53)
What we have seen in this passage, is that Jesus has prepared his soul through the heavy labor of prayer and is able to encounter his captors in a state of composed mastery, with a sovereign display of mercy and compassion towards those consumed by darkness. The disciples, on the other hand,…
