We have descended into hell together and Christ has gone before us, into every corner of it. The good news is that when life takes us there, when we have to go there, he goes with us.” “The good news, ...

‘Raised With Christ’ highlights the neglected central event of our faith. Raised With Christ: How the Resurrection Changes Everything by Adrian Warnock Crossway Books, January 2010 272 pp ...

His message is something like this: "If you were raised with Christ, you have a super, ever-redeemable coupon." Paul believed that in baptism we receive an irrevocable writ of absolute freedom and ...

In a feminist commentary on Colossians I wrote with Claire Miller Colombo—for the Wisdom Commentary series from Liturgical Press—we asked how the women in the congregation who affirmed that they had ...

"For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in ...

Christ has united us with himself so that we have been raised up with him and have been seated at the right hand of God (Col. 3:1). It is this connection with him, this new state of being included ...

Paul taught about the effects of that: "You have been raised with Christ, let that alone be your guiding star." Both Peter and Paul proclaimed that an absolutely new kind of life was thriving in ...

That we come from love and that we will return to love. If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God (Col 3:1). That the shelter of love ...

Amen. Alleluia” (Easter sequence). “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain…your faith is futile and you are still in your sins…If for this ...

“If you were raised with Christ,” St. Paul proclaims to us at Mass on Easter Sunday morning, “seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is ...