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Apr 15, 2024 · Through His sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection, Jesus achieves victory over sin and offers the gift of eternal life to humanity. This act not only fulfills the prophecy but also embodies the universal story structure of death and rebirth, highlighting the hero’s journey towards redemption.
- Call to Adventure
- Challenges and Temptations
- Transformation
The “Call to Adventure” along the hero’s journey is one leg of the quest that we are invited to join Jesus on. In John 4:28–30, we read an account where a woman begins telling everyone she can about the Messiah, Jesus. Not only was this woman impacted by what Jesus had said to her but she also was able to share the same experience with others. The ...
God calls us to live a life that is different from those who do not know Him. This is challenging. We are all sinful; we all fall short. Knowing that Jesus has defeated death and paid the price for our mistakes doesn’t excuse us from being challenged by the world.Living life in line with God’s Word is challenging in our sinful landscape. But we do ...
Most literature on the hero’s journey will tell you that the transformation stage is a moment of hope and rebirth. It is the stage where a character overcomes “the abyss” (a major loss or disaster). It is where the characters are at an all-time low. In Jesus’ life, this was His Passion. In His death, and then resurrection, He triumphed over sin, de...
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Nov 10, 2019 · When you fill your hearts with the pure love of Christ, you leave no room for rancor, judgment, and shaming. You keep God’s commandments because you love Him. In the process, you slowly become more Christlike in your thoughts and deeds.
Jan 4, 2022 · You can know you have been reborn if you bear the fruit of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22–23 lists the qualities that believers will demonstrate as a result of being reborn by the Holy Spirit: “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (NLT).
This essay engages these issues, utilising John Frame’s tri-perspectival approach to Christian ethics, to find that far from resisting the heroic, the gospel would have us both embrace Christ as hero and strive for the unexpected heroism he calls for.
Jun 18, 2021 · The Christian hero’s journey in many ways is one of growing up in Christ Jesus. Part two (the mentor) revealed that, as Christians, we’re supposed to grow and mature. Part three (the struggle) highlighted that struggle and hardship serves as a catalyst to our growth.
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Apr 26, 2019 · Here are four truths he notes about why we’re fascinated with the heroic. 1. Humans are hardwired for heroism. “The heroic is an imprint that’s been left inside all of us because we’re made in the image of God,” Delvaux says. “Even though that imprint has been marred by the fall, there’s something that remains.
