Category Archives: Outrageous

Thursday, November 3, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in renewed horror…and gratitude:

“…through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”
(Colossians 1:20)

The peace with You I now enjoy wasn’t made at a conference table, Jesus.

It wasn’t agreed to with a handshake
wasn’t wordsmithed on a piece of paper.

It was paid in full by You

through Your excruciatingly painful

ugly
wholly undeserved
patently unfair
outrageously unjust
humiliating death

on the cross.

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Matthew 27:27-31; Matthew 27:42; Mark 8:34; Acts 2:23; 1 Corinthians 1:18; Galatians 6:14; 1 Peter 2:24

Sunday, May 15, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“I pray that…all may go well with you…”
(3 John 1:2)

That’s a bodacious, outrageous, too-good-to-be-true-except-that-it’s-You prayer, Jesus!

Seriously?

That all may go well with somebody? Anybody!

Who deserves that?

Billy Graham?
Mother Teresa?
My sainted grandmother?

Huh-uh.

Certainly not Yours truly.

But I have the privilege of praying that prayer over every single person I care about –

not because of their goodness
but because of Yours

along with Your power and desire

to do infinitely more than I ask.

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Mark 11:24; Luke 22:32; John 17:9; John 17:20; Acts 26:29; Ephesians 1:18; Ephesians 3:14-21; Philemon 1:6

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with faith in the power of God:

“…it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed…”
(1 Peter 1:18)

“It’s all about the money.”

That’s what people say, Jesus.

They may be right about some things
but they’re wrong about the one thing that matters most:

my eternal salvation.

No amount of silver or gold could pay the sin debt I’ve accumulated over my lifetime.

The cost of my redemption was unjust, unfair – outrageous:

Your blood, shed on the cross.

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Matthew 26:28; Acts 2:38; Romans 10:9-10; Hebrews 9:11-12; Hebrews 10:4-7; Hebrews 10:19-22; 1 John 1:7