Easter Sunday announces the end of the fig leaves. Through baptism and resurrection, Christ buries our shame and raises us into new creation life. Galatians 2:20.

Centuries before Palm Sunday, the pre-incarnate Christ stood on Mount Moriah and promised one Man would possess the gate of His enemies. That Man descended the Mount of Olives on a colt. And He is coming back.

As Lent leads us toward Holy Week, Genesis 12 shows Abram leaving everything at God’s call and stepping into contested ground by faith. His obedience points beyond itself to Christ, the better Son, who walked toward the Cross with the full cost in view.

A lawyer's three-word question in Luke 10:25 reveals an ancient posture — transactional spirituality. From Cain's altar to Bonhoeffer's cheap grace, this piece traces the human instinct to approach God on our own terms, and the invitation to something more.