In part two of our series, The Big Story, we dug into the tragedy of the Fall. While creation was originally adorned with not just beauty and splendor, but holiness and righteousness, it didn’t stay that way. We broke it. And yet, God refused to let sin have the last word. Even in the midst of the mess of the Fall there was one thing God kept doing. Keep reading to find out what this was…
Love Amid the Mess
Have you ever totally blown it? I’m not talking a little explosion. I’m talking, you rolled out the big guns, pointed them right at the stockpile of ammunition, and blew the whole fort to pieces. If you’ve lived very long we’ve all done that at least once. You may still be trying to recover from it. Usually explosions that large leave a crater that even when once the ground has recovered from the blast still leaves a mark that everyone can see years later. Where we came from near Petersburg, VA, there is the Petersburg National Battlefield Park. The highlight of the drive through the Civil War battlefield is known as “the Crater.” It’s this giant hole in the ground where the attacking Union soldiers exploded a mine up next to the defenses of the Confederates stationed there in order to breech the lines and win the battle. The hole is still there. They even named a road after it: Crater Road. Read the rest…
The Nexus 