Sunday at church we had a pot luck lunch. Logistics forced us to set up tables of 8 chairs each. The congregation sat at the tables during the service and afterward for the meal. In the above picture, many were still getting their food. Just […]
Month: April 2015
Storms
45 Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. 46 After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. 47 Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, […]
Treasures
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy,and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.21 For where your […]
Make Up Your Mind Monday
We have just finished celebrating the most significant day in history, Resurrection Sunday. The church going, family gathering, dressing up and egg hunting is over. Today I call your attention to what is a more personally significant day. I call it Make Up Your Mind […]
Power Sunday
It’s Sunday that makes all the difference. Friday provided the once for all sacrifice that gives us the blood that brings forgiveness. Sunday gives us the power to live. We can be Followers because of Sunday. We partake of the divine and become Sons of God […]
Silent Saturday
Friday was a noisy and frantic day, crowds screaming for blood, the cold sound of nails into flesh and wood. It was a visual day with darkness in the middle of the day and the renting of the temple curtain. Saturday was different but no […]
Facing Friday
It’s time to square up to the cross of Christ, to all that happened on this Good Friday and take responsibility. It’s time to drop all the universalist language and stop saying “He died for the sins of the world.” Just admit it. He died […]
On Wednesday They Schemed in Secret
3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, 4 and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 5 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be a riot […]