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How Much Did the People of Jesus’s Time Know About Crucifixion? Luke 14:27.

Could there be a symbol more ironic than the cross? The instrument of the most terrifying, arguably worst-possible death, has become the world’s most beloved symbol of eternal life. The cross is so candy-coated, so bathed in sugar and sweetness, it is impossible to grasp the bitter horror it once created. Consider the words ofContinue reading “How Much Did the People of Jesus’s Time Know About Crucifixion? Luke 14:27.”

FAMILY. Mark 3:21, 31-35.

Sara was baptized at 8. Her drunken father, standing at the back of the sanctuary, shouted, “Hooray for Sara!” as she came up out of the water. Sara figured baptism was proof of salvation: you believed in Jesus, and proved it by baptism. But she writes that what neither she nor her father understood wasContinue reading “FAMILY. Mark 3:21, 31-35.”