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Agnus Dei: Lamb of God

by Everett J. Thomas

The Easter story—Christ’s death and resurrection—is not about man’s inhumanity to man. It is an act of worship; it is about God worshiping us. The word worship means, literally, “worth-ship.” That means that when we worship God, we are declaring how much God is worth to us. But Easter demonstrates how much we are worth to God: We are worth so much that he gave us his only Son ...

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