We launch a new series this weekend in preparation of our Easter Celebrations. We are calling the series "Scandalous" after a book by the same title by Dr. D.A. Carson, one of the world's leading New Testament scholars.
"Nothing is more central to the Bible than Jesus' death and resurrection. The entire Bible pivots on one weekend in Jerusalem about two thousand years ago." D.A Carson, Scandalous
Millions have taken a look at the cross of Jesus and as they have begun to understand what it is about, they have turned and walked away calling the whole account a scandal, an untruth.
Is Jesus a living-and-dying-and-living God?
The God who stands against us in wrath and loves us any way?
Can it be true that on a cross, punishment is both given by God and borne by God?
Do you believe? Or will you dismiss the story as scandalous?
This weekend we begin to place a magnifying glass against one weekend in Jerusalem. Not just to see if these events did take place, but also to uncover what they mean.
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