The Gospel Through Nature: The Offer of New Life!
With Easter, perhaps my favorite holiday, on the way and new life bursting out in bud and bloom all around us, I wanted to share a piece written last year, in celebration of spring and the offer of New Life made available to us all! When first composing this piece, I considered titling it "The Gospel of Nature." But I want to be clear from the beginning: If the Gospel is defined as the Good News about the offer of salvation from sin and death, by grace through faith in the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, there is no gospel apart from that which is revealed in God's Word, the Bible. The Bible, God's inspired Word, is his Special Revelation to us: words written by humans, through the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit, with the purpose of giving the clear message of salvation to the world. Without the words of God and the work of Jesus as revealed to us in Scripture, there is no knowing of our need for repentance and God's a...
