Ascension Choral Evening Prayer

The Ascension of Jesus, like the virgin birth and the resurrection, challenge us with things that seem more like story or myth than actual events. And yet the epic stories capture our imaginations. There is a longing for them to be true, because they make sense of the world.

For many years C.S. Lewis, captivated by myths, remained an atheist. His conversion to Christianity, thanks in part to J.R.R. Tolkien, was in recognizing in Christ the “true myth.” …

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Messiah Is the Telos of Torah: Easter Sunday 2021

What is happening in Jesus? The Narrator—God Himself—the One who made the world entered the world. It was His world, but gone wrong. It became filled with snakes, and death, and tears. He becomes one of us in the womb of a virgin. He does nothing wrong, but is accused of everything. And He suffers everything – every indignity, every humiliation, every pain. Along the way He begins reshaping creation. Storms are quieted, flows of blood cease. He rescues children, sets prostitutes on a new path, flips the tables on religious peddlers. Meeting Him, thieves confess, extortioners make restitution. He gives vision to the blind, He calls a corpse from its tomb.

He comes before corrupt priests and cowardly politicians, and submits to their judgment. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. The insurrectionist goes free, and the Lord of Life is executed. Where’s the justice in that?

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