This is for our service at the hospital today. It’s longer than usual. +++ In the days of His humanity, He offered up both prayers and pleas with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His devout behavior. Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. And having […]

I wrote this three years ago. It seemed worthwhile to share this again. +++ I’ve spent some time starting to write for you today, feeling a little, perhaps, like a chef in a cooking competition: “Judges, today I have made for you words about Maundy Thursday. On a base of Judas’s betrayal there is a […]

Rich Dixon helps us think about what to do. +++ Concluding FREEDOM TOUR 2017, the team discussed “purpose.” We read the story of Moses’ encounter with God speaking from a burning bush, focused on verses 10-11. “So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses […]

This week, it may be worth thinking about Jesus’ last week. The one we call “Holy Week.” That week, Jesus lived in relationship. He spent the nights in prayer. He spent the days in teaching. But he spent the evenings in Bethany. With Martha and Mary and Lazarus. With friends. At the house of Simon […]

It’s holy week. I’m going back to archives for this week. Sunday, following was pretty easy. Suddenly, Jesus was the popular one, Jesus was the celebrated one, Jesus was the one that everyone was cheering. After all those months of being misunderstood, of having regular attacks from all the religious leaders, now there is recognition. […]