The Cutting of the Cross (Part Three)

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Sex of the Recipient This is now the third and final installment of my examination of the covenant sign of circumcision and what Gospel light might be found in it. In the first post, I wrote about how the location of the sign on the body spoke of both…

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The Cutting of the Cross (Part One)

Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction As faithful readers of this blog will know, its title is taken from that revelatory stroll our Savior took with two of His dejected disciples on the day of His resurrection. As they plodded their way to Emmaus, Jesus came upon them and spent the rest of that 7-mile…

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Rows of Silent Witnesses

Reading Time: 5 minutes I had the sad honor of participating in two funerals since the beginning of the year. One was of a beloved uncle and the other was my father-in-law. Both were very godly men, and so their funerals were full of the remembrance of redeeming legacies and the hope of future…

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The Masculinity of Redemption

Reading Time: 4 minutes Men of my generation will recall an ad, found in the back of most comic books when we were young. It featured the standard comic book format of a story told in successive cartoon panels. The opening scene was of a scrawny man having sand kicked in his face by…

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