This month we are approaching Easter Sunday which we often call Resurrection Sunday, for it is a remembrance of that first Easter Sunday on which Jesus Christ our Lord rose from the grave. While it is good and right for us to celebrate Easter each year, perhaps we also need reminding that every Sunday is a resurrection Sunday. Indeed, each Sunday that we gather is a continued celebration of the Risen King and of our expectation of His return to rule and to reign forevermore.
Can God created a rock so heavy that even He cannot lift it? Questions of this nature are ages old. They are asked by various people for various reasons. Sometimes, they have been wielded by atheists to attack the true nature of God and thereby deny His existence. They say, “If God claims He Himself is omnipotent (all-powerful) and the source is truth, then He cannot in fact be God (or at least not the Christian one) because He is not all-powerful and therefore has lied.”
God’s judgments contain hidden graces. That is probably a surprising statement because we tend to think about judgment—and especially God’s judgment—as painful, terrifying, and devasting. Of course, God’s judgment is terrible. However, the prospect and pronouncement of judgment from God is also something that contains hidden grace—at least on this side of heaven.
One of the significant motivations for a typological interpretive framework is to help us see just how unified the Old and New Testaments are. So often, we think of ourselves as “New Testament” Christians. But truly, we are people of the entire Word. While there are many aspects of the Old Testament that have been fulfilled in Christ, we can’t excise the Old Testament from our Bibles—or at least we shouldn’t. I fear that we actually do become modern-day Marcionites at times. Not confessionally, but practically in the way that we read the Bible.
At Lakewood, we are currently working through the letter of Paul to the Colossians. The central themes of the letter and of Paul’s exhortation to the Colossians are built on the centrality, supremacy, deity, and lordship of Jesus Christ. As such, I began to try to trace out what practical significance the doctrine of Christ’s lordship had for our everyday walk in Christ. Here are seven practical ways that the Lordship of Jesus matters to us day by day.
