Status Updates From Surprised by Hope

This is Calvin’s so I need to finish it before he gets back

Love is….
the music God has written for all His creatures to sing, and we are called to learn it and practice it now so as to be ready when the conductor brings down his baton.

“At communion we are like the children of Israel in the wilderness, tasting fruit plucked from the promised land.”

“Baptism is not magic, a conjuring trick with water. But neither is it simply a visual aid. It is one of the points, established by Jesus himself, where heaven and earth interlock, where new creation, resurrection life, appears, within the midst of the old….. the foundational event for all serious Christian living, all dying to sin and coming alive with Christ.”