I wasn’t more than ten years old when I watched my grandfather butcher a pig. Contrary to what some might imagine, I don’t think I was emotionally damaged by it. Sure, it was gruesome and bloody. But I also remember thinking that this is… Continue Reading “Choosing an Atoning Sacrifice”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Animal Sacrifice, Animal skins, Atonement, Blood, Bloody sacrifice, Christ's Sacrifice, Christus Victor, Circle of Life, Death, Death of the innocent, Human Sacrifice, Jesus' Death, Jesus' Resurrection, Pay for your sins, Penal Substitution, Sacrifice, sacrificial love, Shed blood, sin, The Cross, Theories of the Atonement, Why sacrifice?
“I will kill as many of them as I can.” A young man from Prizren, Kosovo said this to me quietly through clenched teeth. Not knowing how to respond, I replayed the story he had just told me. It was July of 1999, and… Continue Reading “Choosing to Avoid the Spiritual Black Hole”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Atonement, Bitterness, Black Holes, Blood, Condemnation, Cycles of Sin, Eternity, forgiveness, freedom, Gravity, Innocent Blood, Kosovo, Pride, Redemption, Resentment, Revenge, Self Righteousness, Self-Sacrifice, Serbia, sin, Stubbornness
Posted on February 7, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I wasn’t more than ten years old when I watched my grandfather butcher a pig. Contrary to what some might imagine, I don’t think I was emotionally damaged by it. Sure, it was gruesome and bloody. But I also remember thinking that this is… Continue Reading “Choosing an Exchanged Life”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Atonement, Blood, Bloody, Circle of Life, Death, Exchange, Execution, Grace, Guilty, Human Sacrifice, Innocent, Lamb of God, love, Mercy, Offering, Offerings, Resurrection, Sacrifice, Sacrifices, shame, sin, Suffer, Suffering, Theories of the Atonement