This weekend we finished up our Last Words series. All I can say is this: it was good to spend three weeks at the foot of the cross. And it was a good change of pace to celebrate communion three weeks in a row! We typically celebrate communion once a month.

The longer I preach the more I realize that it all comes back to the simple truths! It's so easy to major in minors isn't it? But this Holy Week is an annual reminder of what it's all about.

On a personal note, I went through a season in my early twenties when I explored lots of different religious traditions. And I was impressed with some of the concepts and rituals and practices. But it also cemented this core belief: Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one else lived a sinless life. No one else died for my sins. And no one else was raised from the dead. My faith isn't anchored in concepts or rituals or practices. My faith is anchored in a person who was fully human and fully God.

I'm so grateful for the life he lived and the death he died. I'm so grateful for the unlimited access I have to the presence of God because of what Christ did on the cross. And I'm so grateful that my standing with God is not contingent upon what I can do for God, it's contingent upon what Christ did for me at Calvary!