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Nailing Easter – Warning: “Confronting Message”

Nailing Easter – Warning: “Confronting Message”

Do you know what really scares me about Easter?

It’s that we’ve sanitised it. Cleaned it up. Turned it into a nice little religious celebration … and in doing so, I wonder whether we’re not completely missing the point.

I struggled as to whether I should use this confronting image on this blog post to depict what happened on ‘Good Friday’. I struggled with it because I thought I might offend someone. I struggled with it because I thought it might be hard for you to look at.

But then … Easter is offensive. Easter is difficult to look at. That’s what it is.

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That Rotten Feeling When We Fail God

That Rotten Feeling When We Fail God

Have you ever been totally disheartened because you’ve stumbled and failed God? It’s a terrible feeling!

And what makes things worse is when we get the wrong idea about pleasing God …

… imagining that it’s something like winning at that addictive game Angry Birds. If you succeed at one level then it’s up to the next. The smarter we get, the more we hone our skills, the further we advance.

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