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Have I told you how much I LOVE campus ministry?! ❤️🙌 A few snapshots from last night at SVSU! Cane’s Chicken 🍗, singing to Jesus 🎶, digging into Ecclesiastes 📖, prayer, fellowship, and LOTS of fun! College students + Jesus = my kind of night! 🔥✝️ ❤️
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We are all hot messes. Jesus came into this world to save hot messes. You are not beyond His love and forgiveness.
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Your boy finally perfected the walking on water thing!
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Holy Saturday Thoughts We don’t always see right away how things are going to turn out. That’s how it was for the disciples on Friday and Saturday. But what a difference a day makes. Some of us are living in Friday...what I would call day one. It’s the day of the trial and heartbreak. Not yesterday, not someday…right now. The storm isn’t on the horizon, it’s overhead. Life isn’t knocking politely, it’s pressing in from every side. You feel it in your chest, in your prayers, in the quiet moments when your strength runs thin. If that’s where you are, hear this from a fellow warrior: hold on to hope. Not a fragile, wishful kind of hope (like Taco Bell getting your order right), but the stubborn, soul-anchored kind that refuses to let go of God even when everything else feels like it’s slipping. Others of you are in day two...Saturday. That in-between space. The cross has happened, but the resurrection hasn’t yet broken through. Like the disciples on that long Saturday, you’re left sorting through confusion, disappointment, maybe even some real doubt. The intensity of the crisis has faded, but now comes the fog. The questions. The waiting. And your faith might feel more fragile than you’d like to admit. If that’s you, then take courage and hold on to faith. Even a trembling faith, even a whisper of trust, is enough when it’s placed in a faithful God. Because the story is not finished. And then there is day three. Day three is coming for all of us. A day when sorrow gives way to song. A day when what looked like defeat is revealed as victory. A day when heaven’s light breaks through the darkest night. Whether that victory comes here and now, or in hereafter, it is certain because Jesus has already won it. The stone has been rolled away. Death has been undone. Hope has been vindicated. So wherever you find yourself today, keep going. Hold on to hope in day one. Cling to faith in day two. And lift your hearts toward day three. Because what a difference a day makes. Sunday’s coming! Jesus got you! You are loved! ❤
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I have to admit that I emotionally feel conflicted about Good Friday. Should I mourn at the high price paid for my forgiveness? Should I celebrate that my sins are forgiven? I believe it is appropriate to remain in the tension of both of these realities this day. I mourn. In many ways, each Good Friday is like a Funeral for a Friend. He is my friend, for He is a Friend of Sinners. We often know the severity of the disease by the severity of the treatment. I look at the Cross with the crushed Son of God upon it, and I can no longer underestimate the gravity of my sin. If this is the only cure for my sin problem, my sin is hideous. And I cry. Yet, I unapologetically rejoice that I am healed and free. Ultimately, it was not my sin that brought Jesus to the Cross, but His love for me and you. He would rather die than to live without you and me for eternity. Remember, there is no nail big enough to hold the Son of God to a cross. His love held Him there. Although our sin is great, God’s grace is greater still! And I can’t help but rejoice. I celebrate that “It is Finished!” Moments before His death on the cross, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the shofar (Ram’s Horn) blows in the Temple signaling that it is time for all the lambs that were ready for sacrifice to be slaughtered. Jesus hears these horns and yells out: “It is finished!” One word in Greek: tetelestai. It is finished. It’s over! The atonement is complete. The Scriptures are fulfilled. Sin is forgiven. The devil is defeated. He’s still active, of course, but he knows he is defeated and doomed. When Jesus says, ‘It is finished,’ over you, he breaks the jaw of the Accuser (Gen. 3:15). The practical aspect of all this is simple: There is nothing left to finish by a person. We can add nothing to the death of Christ. Remember His words “ tetelestai.” It is finished. IT IS FINISHED! So, my friends, live within the tension of Good Friday. Mourn and rejoice. Christ’s death was a crime of passion. But it wasn’t a crime of passion the way we often think of it. The crime was ours… and the passion was His. And the reality is that you are loved, forgiven, and free!
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So excited about our new Campus Ministry group beginning at Saginaw Valley State in February! Let’s go!!
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