{"id":39622,"date":"2026-03-16T21:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39622"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:16:35","slug":"26-0317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0317\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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The most notorious road in the world is the Via Dolorosa, \u201cthe Way of Sorrows.\u201d According to tradition, it\u2019s the route Jesus took from Pilate\u2019s hall to Calvary. The path is marked by stations frequently used by Christians for their devotions\u2014 each one a reminder of the events of Christ\u2019s final journey. No one actually knows the exact route Christ followed that Friday. But we do know where the path began. In heaven.<\/p>\n

Jesus began his journey when he left his home in search of us. The Bible has a word for this quest:\u00a0 reconciliation. \u201cGod was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:19). Reconciliation re-stiches the unraveled, reverses the rebellion, and rekindles the cold passion. Reconciliation touches the shoulder of the wayward and woos him homeward. The path to the cross tells us exactly how far God will go to call us back!<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The most notorious road in the world is the Via Dolorosa, \u201cthe Way of Sorrows.\u201d According to tradition, it\u2019s the route Jesus took from Pilate\u2019s hall to Calvary. The path is marked by stations frequently used by Christians for their devotions\u2014 each one a reminder of the events of Christ\u2019s final journey. No one actually knows the exact route Christ followed that Friday. But we do know where the path began. In heaven.<\/p>\n

Jesus began his journey when he left his home in search of us. The Bible has a word for this quest: reconciliation. \u201cGod was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:19). Reconciliation re-stiches the unraveled, reverses the rebellion, and rekindles the cold passion. Reconciliation touches the shoulder of the wayward and woos him homeward. The path to the cross tells us exactly how far God will go to call us back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39624,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39622\/revisions\/39624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}