We love to talk about resurrection—and rightly so. The empty tomb is the triumph of life over death, hope over despair, light over darkness. It is the centerpiece of the Christian faith. “If Christ has not been raised,” Paul writes, “your faith is futile and you are still in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15:17). No...
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The Beautiful Horror of Calvary
At the heart of the Christian faith stands a cross—an instrument of death that has become a symbol of life. Calvary is both grotesque and glorious, a place of brutality and beauty, justice and mercy. In the beautiful horror of Calvary God’s greatest act of love was also His most violent collision with evil. It...