[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series ] Not ‘just another man deceiving for a span’, for, just as he before foretold, death did not keep its hold. They’d seen his goodness pure, and miracles galore …
This all occurred – as man on earth God brought true Word and died our death … He then returned and showed the debt had been wiped clean – come, bow, and let him rule, redeem.
Stark, dry brown trees and hedges: a warm green blush spreads, gradually suffuses – astonishing expanding leaves unfold, push, squirt from tiny lumps...
[The evidence makes legal sense, the implications are immense] Jesus was beaten, crucified – the soldiers checked he’d really died with spear thrust deep into his side: some try to say he this survived …