ARE WE MAKING THIS TOO HARD?

By Benjamin Raven Pressley

 

All of my life I have observed how many religious institutions have kept Christ just out of the reach of people. Preachers scream out His name from the pulpit followed by ‘Just As I Am’ and people come to the altar. Jesus gloriously saves all who come. Then the bidding for your soul begins. “Yes you are saved”, they say, “but now you gotta…” And then it begins. I have been there, done that and oh, buddy do I have the T-shirt to prove it! I remember when I got saved and filled with the Holy Spirit how free I was, indescribably free. I felt so clean, unfettered. Then it was you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to cut off this and grow out that and stop doing this. (more…)

At Jesus’ crucifixion have you ever wondered what things looked like to the angels that surrounded Christ invisible to man’s eyes, from their point of view? The crucifixion was a crossroads in eternity. It was the climax of the spiritual world and the line that divided the physical world from the spiritual world. That moment in time changed EVERYTHING. You better believe angels and demon spirits were present. No man took Jesus’ life; He laid down his life willingly to satisfy judgment and to the pay the price to save humankind. This story is my imagining of what this scene looked like from an angel that was there’s point of view. (more…)