LAZARUS, the miracle
April 11, 2012Mary came out to be with Martha and Jesus. She was weeping. “When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled up within him, and he was deeply...
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April 12, 2012The raising of Lazarus from the dead inflamed the Pharisees and the leading council. As they said, “’what are we accomplishing? Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we...
View ArticleTHE APPROACH
April 13, 2012The approach to Jerusalem was punctuated by moments of drama. On the outskirts of Jericho the crowd encountered two blind men who, when they heard Jesus was passing by, put up such a...
View ArticleTHE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
April 14, 2012Save for the resurrection, the triumphal entry has seemed to me the most dramatic of all the events of Jesus’ life among us. Most of us tend to see Biblical events as smaller than they...
View ArticleCONFLICT!
April 15, 2012On the eve of the triumphal entry, after a day of teaching and healing, Jesus returned to Bethany for rest. On the successive days of that holy week he made his way to Jerusalem each...
View ArticleA FINAL FEAST
April 16, 2012With solemnity and quiet Christians “celebrate” communion every Sunday. In some churches it’s called the Lord’s Supper, in others the Eucharist, from a Greek word meaning thanksgiving,...
View ArticleARREST, SWIFT INJUSTICE, DEATH
They came for Jesus in a rush, and it wasn’t quiet. A few years ago the film, “The Passion of the Christ” captured attention with a depiction of the events of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection....
View ArticleThe End
He was crucified.Crucifixion was seen by the ancient world as a particularly disgraceful and grievous form of execution. It began with the Assyrians, was widely practiced by the Persians, and made its...
View ArticleTwo Funerals
When I was a preacher, I struggled with how to talk about the resurrection. Without it there is no Christian faith. It is the core that makes everything else about the Christian faith live. Perhaps the...
View ArticleWhat Now?
I cannot prove the resurrection. I can see its power in my life and in the lives of others, but I cannot prove that it happened. But the scripture gives us eyewitness accounts attesting to the fact of...
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