While we are not restricted to thinking about the Cross once a year, Easter allows us to set time aside, reflect deeply, give thanks, and celebrate what it means to us. Holy Week provides another opportunity to prepare our hearts to remember the events of Calvary, and our Lord who died there.

What does resilience in our walk with God look like and how can we persevere? The apostle Peter knew that his life was soon to be over when he wrote his second letter and he has much to teach us that will help us on our journey.

Our need of God's forgiveness is an affront to our desire to pay our own debts. To atone for our sins with our own good works, blind to our sinfulness before the most holy God, and those destined for His eternal punishment.

However, the Good News is that it doesn't have to be this way. That God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has a made a way for us to be brought back into right relationship with Him, to know His mercy, our sins forgiven, if we would but come with empty hands to Him and receive it.

Our need of God's forgiveness is an affront to our desire to pay our own debts. To atone for our sins with our own good works, blind to our sinfulness before the most holy God, and those destined for His eternal punishment.

However, the Good News is that it doesn't have to be this way. That God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has a made a way for us to be brought back into right relationship with Him, to know His mercy, our sins forgiven, if we would but come with empty hands to Him and receive it.

No other Gospel. That is the message that rings out loud and clear from the book of Galatians. The Good News of God's grace to us in Christ, that through faith in Him we are delivered from God's wrath and those empowered by the Spirit to live godly lives.