We Are Raised With Him

Without the resurrection of Jesus, there would be no Christianity at all. While Jesus’s death lies at the heart of his saving work, his death wouldn’t be effective without his subsequent work of resurrection.

Read the rest of Jesus Is Risen, my post at Out of the Ordinary today.

Here are the previous posts in this series on truths every Christian woman should know:

1. God Has Spoken (posted at the True Woman Blog)
2. God Is Three and God Is One
3. God Is Who He Is
4. God Had a Plan
5. God Created the Universe
6. We Are Made in God’s Image
7. We Are All Sinners
8. God Saves
9. The Son Came
10. The Son Lived and Died

Thankful Thursday

Join me in thanksgiving to God for this week’s blessings.

Today I’m thankful 

• for work done previously that made it possible for me to meet my obligations during this especially busy week.
• for my step-grandson’s two week visit to his Yukon family. I’m thankful that he’s now old enough to explain more about his home life.  I’m thankful that despite his difficult family circumstances, he remains a loving child who can enjoy life. I’m thankful for his dad’s new resolve to fight to make things better for him. I’m thankful that God can be trusted to care for him after he leaves. 
• for today’s pond walk and playground trip with all four grandchildren.
• for berries ripening in the yard and woods—cranberries, mossberries, rosehips, saskatoon berries, strawberries and raspberries. We—the grandchildren and I—snacked on them all today.
• for a decent weather forecast.
• for the resurrection of Jesus and the good gifts that come from it.

Also thankful today:

• Persis
• Kim Shay

What are you thankful for? Leave a comment with your thanksgiving, post your thanksgiving on your blog, or tweet it. Give me the link by email or in a comment and I’ll add your thanksgiving to the list in the post.

The Threefold Doctrinal Significance of the Ascension

More notes from my research for my next posts at Out of the Ordinary. 

The ascension of Jesus 

1. “clearly embodied the declaration that the sacrifice of Christ was a sacrifice to God, which as such had to be presented to Him in the inner sanctuary; that the Father regarded the Mediatorial work of Christ as sufficient and therefore admitted Him to the heavenly glory; and that the Kingdom of the Mediator was not a kingdom of the Jews, but a universal kingdom.”
   
   
2. “was … exemplary in that it was prophetic of the ascension of all believers, who are already set with Christ in heavenly places, Eph. 2:6, and are destined to be with Him forever, John 17:24; and also in that it revealed the initial restoration of the original kingship of man, Heb. 2:7, 9. 
   
   
3. “was … instrumental in preparing a place for those who are in Christ. The Lord Himself points to the necessity of going to the Father, in order to prepare a place for His disciples, John 14:2-3.”

Quoted from the section on Christ’s state of exaltation in Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof [page 351].