So many people view Jesus’ death on the cross at Calvary through the lens of Roman crucifixion. It’s as if that suffering alone defines Christ’s acceptance of becoming the Lamb of God and the sacrificial offering for the sin of all mankind. It is nothing of the sort. It is only the degrading container, the…
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Holy Thursday/Good Friday – The Center of the Christian Faith
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tFor some people, it is Christmas and Easter that are the centerpieces of the Christian faith. For me it is Holy Thursday and Good Friday. True, the popular holy/holiday days celebrate important milestones in the history of mankind. However, the significance of Christmas and Easter is that the first launches our faith (the Son enters…
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Lent 2021 Day 40 – Choices and Nexus Points
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Lent is over today. The commitment is complete. I will try to continue to write, but I will make no promises, since I do not want to break them. I do not know how often posts will appear, but the one promise I will make is that they will appear. It has been a long…
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Lent 2021 Day 39 – Hope is…
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We are approaching the end of this exercise. Only one more day left and then Lent is over and Holy Week begins. Endings are times of reflection, when you look back over what you have done and do a sort of lessons learned exercise. You ask yourself what did I do well, what needed improvement,…
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Lent 2021 Day 38 – Eat and Drink and Live
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Two more days of my Lenten observance and then we have Holy Thursday and the Passover feast celebrated by Jesus as the Last Supper and the first institution of the Eucharist and the completion of Jesus’ statement in John 6:14, 53-58 “48I am the bread of life…”53bTruly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat…
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Lent 2021 Day 37 – What Does the Evidence Say
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Today is Palm Sunday. The sermon this morning explained something that most people miss about the Passion of Jesus that is about to unfold, relating to a symbolic part of the Seder meal every descendent of Abraham follows that speaks to the very nature of God within the remembrance of the deliverance God gave the…
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Lent 2021 Day 36 – Lesson #1
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As we approach Palm Sunday, there is something we should never forget: the discontinuity between what the people in Jerusalem wanted and expected from Jesus as he entered the city and what his actually mission was and why he entered into Jerusalem. In one sense both were true at the same time, but what the…
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Lent 2021 Day 35 – Vengeance is Mine
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“Vengeance is mine says the Lord, I will repay,” comes from Hebrews 10:30. The more difficult statement is the verse that follows. “31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” I have heard that second verse quoted over the years but I never looked at its context until tonight.…
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Lent 2021 Day 34 – Choices
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In the Lenten posting for day 19 I wrote about choices. I think a lot about choices. Back in August of 2005 I wrote a poem about choices. It was Ok, but something remarkable happened. Someone named George added to it and did so beautifully. He is unknowable, at least in this life, but I…