In Light of the Cross is a 40-day devotional podcast helping us view every part of life—our sin and failures, our relationships, our suffering, our calling, and our hopes—in light of the cross.
Through a daily P.R.A.Y. rhythm (Pause, Reflect, Apply, Yield) we’ll consider how the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ cast a different light on everything—revealing the truth about our sin, the depth of God’s love, and the unshakable hope that carries us through suffering and into resurrection.
Join us as we slow down, listen to Scripture, and learn to live anchored in grace.
In our final episode of In Light of the Cross, we wrap the series around God’s long-standing desire to be with his people—an intimate union that doesn’t erase our individuality, but brings real communion with him now and perfectly in our resurrection destiny.
We linger on John 15 and especially Jesus’ prayer in John 17, where he asks that we would be one with God the way he is one with the Father: we in Christ and Christ in us. We talk honestly about how this can be mysterious and easy to oversell, while still being something we can practice on this side of heaven.
We explore spiritual practices—especially Scripture and prayer (including contemplation), along with Jesus’ rhythms of solitude, community, fasting, and worship—and we end by asking what it looks like to organize every part of our lives around knowing and loving God, then close with the Lord’s Prayer.
00:00 Final Episode Setup
00:34 God With His People
01:04 Union Not Absorption
01:30 Abide in Christ
02:16 Jesus Prayer for Oneness
04:03 Mystery of Being In Christ
04:45 Organize Life Around God
06:05 Realistic Expectations
07:01 Spiritual Practices and Openness
08:23 Scripture and Prayer Basics
09:13 Prayer as Contemplation
09:57 Jesus Model of Practices
11:27 Wrap Up Questions and Story
14:13 Thanks and Lords Prayer
9 Apr 2026
Day 32: Conformed to Christ: Resurrection, Transformation, and Yielding
We’re nearing the end of the podcast run and, on the resurrection side of the cross, we talk about God’s ultimate goal for us: living as resurrected beings who are conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.
We reflect on what our own goals usually are, then look at key passages (1 Corinthians 15:49; 1 John 3:1–3; 2 Corinthians 3:16–18; Ephesians 4:11–13) showing both a future “we will be like him” and a present “we are being transformed” into Christ’s likeness, including moral character, while still retaining our individuality.
We discuss how this formation happens in community through the church’s gifts, how it’s primarily God’s work (with our active yielding), and use the caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation to explain why we can’t fully grasp resurrected life now.
We also briefly speculate that “rewards” may be the culmination of how we yield to God here, then close with the Lord’s Prayer.
00:00 Resurrection Life Focus
00:24 Gods Ultimate Goal
02:10 Conformed Not Dissolved
03:32 Scripture Foundations
05:57 Transformed Starting Now
08:21 Church And Passive Grace
10:33 Caterpillar To Butterfly
13:19 Rewards And Resurrection
15:50 Yielding Reflection Prayer
8 Apr 2026
Day 31: Resurrection Bodies: The Seed, the Oak, and Jesus’ Risen Life
In this post-Easter-season episode of In Light of the Cross, we continue reflecting on Jesus’ resurrection and what it means for those in Christ, focusing on 1 Corinthians 15:35–58 and Paul’s “seed to plant” imagery.
We consider Paul’s point that the resurrection body won’t be identical to our current body: there is continuity, but also profound difference, like an acorn compared to an oak tree. We also look at hints from the Gospels about Jesus’ resurrected body—people not recognizing him at first, his ability to appear and vanish or enter locked rooms—while still being physically touchable, bearing scars, and even eating fish.
We conclude by thanking God for the good gift of bodily existence, trusting he will perfect it, and praying the Lord’s Prayer together.
00:00 Easter Resurrection Hope
00:53 Prayer And Scripture Introduction
01:50 Reading First Corinthians 15
04:31 Seed And Oak Metaphor
05:53 Jesus Resurrected Body Clues
09:33 Physical Resurrection Matters
10:46 Gratitude For Our Body
12:06 Closing Lords Prayer
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