A good friend of Jesus dies, and his other friends want to know why he didn’t stop it from happening. Isn’t he the Son of God? Doesn’t he care? Is there any hope of life? Yes. Yes. And Yes.

Because we belong to Christ, we are set free to work with integrity, justice and compassion.

Paul tells us to “offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,” but what did he mean by that? To answer that question, we have to go all the way back to the Garden of Eden and find out what sacrifice meant to God from the beginning…