This Easter Sunday, and every other day, earn the redemption you've already been given

I recently re-watched the great movie Saving Private Ryan, and it struck me that Tom Hanks’ character’s dying lines are ones that Christians should also take to heart from Easter’s celebration (on this and every Easter weekend) – and which Americans ought to abide in our civic lives as well.

For those who somehow don’t know the movie: Its (fictional) story involves a small group of American soldiers immediately post-D-Day who are sent deep into Nazi-occupied France to find a paratrooper named Ryan, to send him home safely because his mother already had lost three other sons to combat deaths. In effect, Hanks’ squad is asked to risk (and, in most cases, lose) their lives so that Ryan might be saved.