The Wonderful Absurdity of God’s Kingdom
When Isaiah, speaking for the LORD, proclaimed, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways” (55:8), he wasn’t just kidding! The values and priorities reflected in our modern society and secular culture are quite different from God’s; and this is often so because God is so much more radical than we want to be or think we can handle. And yet, there is something tremendously appealing and exciting about how the LORD goes about His Kingdom work. To make sense of—and to be thrilled by—this seeming contradiction, come this Sunday and discover “The Wonderful Absurdity of God’s Kingdom”.
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For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit....
1 Peter 3:18