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Spring brings sunny skies, fresh flowers, warmer days, and questions about modesty. In a society that’s pushing the boundaries, how might Christian women dress differently?
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Spring brings sunny skies, fresh flowers, warmer days, and questions about modesty. In a society that’s pushing the boundaries, how might Christian women dress differently?
What is the beatific vision? This ancient Christian doctrine points all of us today to the only source of fulfillment and joy.
Jesus was our obedience substitute during his life, our punishment substitute in his death, and our rebirth substitute in his resurrection. When we become united with Jesus, his life of obedience, his painful death, and his resurrection into glorious power are all credited to us. When someone becomes a Christian, a spiritually dead person is united with a life-giving one. His resurrection produces a resurrection in us. We are connected to the same power that raised Christ from the dead.
When we suffer quietly in secret and wonder how this pain could possibly be doing any good, we forget just how many are watching in the heavens.