A Little Break , Now I'm Back

Over the last week I decided to take a week away from blogging about anything. It was to more or less re charge my mind and get the writing juices going. Needless to say there is much to write about over the next couple of days and I truly feel ready for a long streak in daily blogging.

So in between cheering my Boston Bruins on in the Stanley Cup Playoffs , I will try to write with both purpose and passion , with a little fun thrown in for good measure . So look out , I'm back with vengeance . Well I hope anyway.

The Emptiness of Atheism

Doubting Dawkins from Nicholas Ryan on Vimeo.

Came across this video that poignantly lays the barrenness of a "God less " view of death and life . Its brutally honest and truthful to all who say they hold to a atheistic world view. Many times they borrow on capital from other world views to give life and death meaning. However strip it down , and this is all they have to say to pain,suffering , too bad , it is what it is , just roll the bones.

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.” 
― Richard Dawkins

Monday Musings

Just a quick thought concerning the truth of the Resurrection . What I have found very interesting over all that when skeptics try to attack this central truth of the Christian faith , their arguments are fairly mute. They don't really engage the historicity of the claims as much they try to generally point to things like miracles can't happen , the disciples where deluded , that it was a mere myth concocted to create a movement etc... However the fact remains something happened that Sunday morning that caused a monumental change in the the cowardly fleeing ,trembling group just a few nights before .

You can chalk it up to delusion , to myth if you is wish . But to do so is to ignore all the other ways we investigate other historical data seriously. But then again when looking at the truth of Jesus rising from the dead , confronts all of us with a reality we do not want . That God has revealed Himself in Jesus , the Son . That we are caught in sin and trespasses and He is Lord of all . He is king and therefore he has claim on our lives .

The resurrection leaves us no wiggle room . No place for any person to hide. We must shout this truth from the mountain tops because by proclaiming the crucifixion and the resurrection ,  we deliver the only hope the sinner has . We most not soften it , mold it or downplay it . It is the gospel and it is the power unto salvation.

Jesus is risen . Indeed .

Good Friday

As I write this Jesus would have already been laid in the tomb. Quickly placed there by Joesph of Arimathea and Nicodemus because of the Sabbath.  They came and collected Jesus body , having endured the cross . There  He  redeemed us from the curse by becoming cursed for us . Does this not make one tremble in awe and amazement .

Galatians 3:13—”Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree’.”

A Tale of Two Gardens

When Jesus celebrated the last supper with His disciples,he then went to the garden of Gethsemane . There before the betrayal , his fleeing friends , Jesus was in great testing and anguish . Crying out to the Father that if this cup could be pasted away , let it be . However after 3 times , Jesus prayed not my will but the Father's will be done. He rose , prepared to complete the call to the cross.

In this garden , Jesus , the second Adam was fully obedient to God's will . In this garden of testing He did not fail like the first Adam did . Adam sinned , he turned his back on God who had given Him everything but he willing allowed Eve to be tempted and sin , then in his temptation took from Eve the forbidden fruit , and plunged all of creation into chaos , death and sin . 

But in Jesus garden , He saw the glory of His Father , willing submitted Himself to walk the path to the cross to atone for our sin , and thereby breaking the curse of Adam , which we are under. I cannot fathom or grasp what Jesus went through as He prayed and prepared to take the full wrath of God on our behalf , His sheep  whom He knows . But what a Savior , as He is about to be made sin , whom knew no sin , there He is making intersession to the Father . 

Yes this day is a tale of two gardens . One that left a darkness , evil and wretched  sinful stain on this world but this garden marked the cleansing , a new birth for all those the Father delighted in giving to the Son to show his great mercy,love and grace. As Jesus rose to face His day that had been planned before the foundations of the world , that would undue Adams fall , the Devils scheme and deaths sting. God clothed Adam and Eve after their sin , and He does it completely when we are clothed in the wonderful , beautiful , majestic righteousness of His son .



For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
(1 Corinthians 15:22 ESV)

The Cross Reveals The Depth of our Sin

As we look at Jesus , walking towards the hill of the skull , were he will be stripped , his bloody body already beaten,whipped and in deep distress , nailed to two beams of wood to make a cross , do you see your depravity. When he is raised for all to see and mock , do you see your evil living within you . When you see the holy,sinless Son of God being made sin on your behalf , do you see how utterly sinful you are.

The cross stands before all who think they are good enough to stand before a holy God . It reveals the incomprehensibly depth of our sinfulness. It should truly humble us and leave us with a thankful and a heart full of worship and adoration for the Lord . So as we gather this coming Good Friday , reflect and let the gravity of what had to be done for you to brought into a right relationship to God .



For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
(2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV)

Tuesday Quick Quotes

Only fitting that the quote this week will help us consider and stay focused on the journey of our Lord Jesus to Calvary.

"The whole of the meditation of the suffering of Christ lies in this , that man should come to the knowledge of himself and sink and tremble"   Martin Luther