Dead to the World
Dead to the World - Part 3: The Cross Was Not a Reform Movement
Posted on Friday, June 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
There is a version of Christianity that treats the cross as a rescue mission. You were in trouble, God sent help, you were pulled out. That is not wrong. But it is incomplete. The New Testament picture is more violent than that — and it uses that violence deliberately. Paul does not say you were helped. He says you were crucified. Not metaphorically. Not poetically. With the same word he uses for the actual death of an actual man on an actual cross, he describes what happened to you.Dead to the World - Part 2: The Old Self Was Real
Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
There is a version of you that no longer exists. Not the version you wish you still were — the one who had fewer responsibilities, or more freedom, or less awareness of how hard it is to follow Jesus. No, this version is something more fundamental than that. This is the version of you that was oriented entirely around the world you lived in. The version that had not yet been interrupted by grace.Dead to the World - Part 1: You Have Been Transferred
Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
If you have been following the Forgiveness series this week, you know that we ended with a simple but challenging idea: you have been graced, therefore you are called to extend grace. That is the Christian life in one sentence. But here is what that series did not fully address — and what this new series will: the question of where you actually belong now. Because if you have been forgiven, something bigger has happened to you than just being pardoned.