Over Lent, we have been looking at God’s call to know Him and His merciful love for us as we struggle to do so. During Holy Week, we will continue to explore His patient care for all who turn to Him and the hope we find in the resurrection.
Christ the Lord is Risen! Back at the origin point of sin, God promised that He would raise up the One who would crush the serpent and rescue humanity from death. On Easter, we see He did just that.
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When a worthy cause demands everything, compromise feels reasonable—even necessary. As Paul delivers a charge to Timothy to continue the job, he gives an important qualification: fight the good fight while holding firmly to faith and a good conscience, because the good fight is lost not through open defeat but through the quiet erosion of integrity.
Whatever looks triumphant—the people and things we hold out as the absolute measure of concrete, dependable success—still meets death that tramples it. Isaiah warns that rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the Lord will perish. What then are we going to hold onto?
We too often forget that the source is joyful and accept the far more mundane or depressing secondhand source.
How does a people God has blessed so richly turn their backs on him? Isaiah 1 opens with God’s lament over Jerusalem—once full of justice, now a harlot filled with murderers—and brings the question home for Lent: when he looks at you, does he lament?
What does God want us to rebuild? Pastor Tim turns to Nehemiah next in 52 Verses, 52 Books and 52 Weeks for 2026 as we think about that.
Two half-brothers leave for the same war; only one comes home. When rescue divides one person from another, “Why me?” can feel unanswerable—and salvation can raise the same uneasy question. In 1 Timothy 1:15–16, Paul refuses to ground his rescue in merit, calling himself the worst of sinners and pointing instead to Christ’s purpose and patience.
When we want vengeance, we want to get back—but Isaiah 1:24–25 shows a God who wants to get back to good, and that difference is harder to hold onto than it sounds when the anger is righteous and the wrong is real.
Who is supposed to teach whom? Pastor Tim thinks about that as we turn to Deuteronomy next in 52 Verses, 52 Books and 52 Weeks for 2026.
We tend to measure our worth by what we bring to the table, but Paul’s testimony in 1 Timothy 1:12 turns that calculus upside down. He could speak of his calling despite his failures because God’s strength doesn’t depend on ours.