His Birth

His Birth

Heaven touches Earth
Myth becomes fact
Throne to manger
God into man.

About Him

About Him

mike

He emptied Himself
To fill us with
His Life

He humbled Himself
To exalt us as
His children

He was condemned
So we may be
Forgiven

He was wounded
So we may be
Healed

He was forsaken
To accept us into
His Family

He was broken
To restore us onto
His Image

He bore
So we may be
Free

He died
So we may be
Alive.

Narnia Reflections: Beyond Narnia

"They will follow the Lord; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west" (Hosea 11: 10).

The much anticipated movie "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe" is finally in theatres! As much as I'd like to watch it on its releasing night, I will do my best to save my appetite for Sunday afternoon when I get to share the movie experience with my brothers and sisters, as well as friends who don't know Jesus. Let's join hands in prayer for the Narnia outreach. Behold, "Aslan" is on the move!

Beyond Narnia

mike


Not just a stone table
But the temple curtain
Torn into halves

Not just an evil spell
But the power of sin
Broken into pieces

Not just a deeper magic
But a new covenant
Founded by His blood


Not just an imaginary land
But our own world
Redeemed by His grace

Not just a lion
But the Great Lion
From the tribe of Judah

Not just a tale
But the greatest story
Ever told to mankind!

Into the Wadrobe---Finding True Freedom of the Soul

Narnia Reflections: Into the Wardrobe
---Finding True Freedom of the Soul

Mike

In the absence of true fulfillment, the state of the soul is like the emptiness of a room except that, in such empty room, there is a wardrobe. The journey of the soul starts with the opening of the wardrobe. Inside the wardrobe one discovers the reality of one's soul---a land dead and frozen in eternal winter under the evil spell of sin. Everything that one finds through the door of wardrobe is longing for the breaking of the spell---the end of winter and the coming of spring, as it is with every part of one's soul under the curse of sin. It is, however, no good with one's own effort to break the spell, for the very nature of the soul, being sinful, is unable to save itself. It is obvious that a man who doesn't know how to swim and happens to be drowning, despite his desperate struggles, cannot save himself without the intervention of some kind of external factor, a life jacket, for example. In Narnia, Aslan came to free the land and its creatures from the curse of the spell. Likewise, in our world, Christ came to free the earth and its people from the curse of sin. The freedom of the soul can only made possible through the breaking of the very thing that creates bondages to the soul---sin. The ultimate defeat of sin is achieved by the total destruction of its power or, in another sense, the maximum level of evil that its power generates---eternal death. Christ demonstrated the victory over death, the ultimate evil resulted from sin, through His own death and resurrection, thereby, fully and once for all, ending the power of sin. It is through this sacrificial act of Christ that we have been given the opportunity to obtain true freedom of our souls. A new journey of the soul begins with one's acceptance of Christ as one's Savior who conquered sin and the wage of sin---eternal death, and the impartation of His resurrected life that overcomes the power of sin.

"You see, at just the right time, when we were still sinners, Christ died for the ungodly." (Romans 5: 6)
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6: 23)