Death & The Passover Lamb

April 10, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slay the Passover lamb. You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in […]

The Events of Holy Week

April 10, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

“This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.” Acts 2:32 (ESV) – In the New Testament we have the record of eyewitnesses—eyewitnesses to the resurrected Christ. Not only that, the writers of the New Testament call attention to the fact that they were eyewitnesses or, in the case of Luke, sought […]

He wept over it . . .

April 9, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

Palm Sunday didn’t end with hallelujahs. Those shouts of praise drew this reaction: Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!” When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, […]

The Shout of Palm Sunday

April 9, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Zechariah 9:10 – After He had said these things, He was going on […]

Race of Hope

March 27, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene *came early to the tomb, while it *was still dark, and *saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. So she *ran and *came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and *said to them, “They have taken away the […]

Dawn of Joy

March 27, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures… 1 Corinthians 15:3–4 – Into the devastation of our world came the God-man Jesus […]

An Unexpected Hiatus

March 26, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

I haven’t been able to do my usual Easter post because in early March I fell and broke both my arms. I’m now recovering from surgery in a rehab nursing/facility. I’m writing this using the mic on my phone. If you’d like to see some of my Easter post from last year you can go […]