Hosanna! Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! The crowds surging around Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday joyfully echoed the words of Psalm 118:25-26. In the ESV translation, this psalm says, Save us we pray, O Lord… Blessed is he who comes in…
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To Be a Disciple on That Day
During Easter and throughout each year, Christians abide in the resurrection and the freedom and hope it has given all believers. On Good Friday, we also remember the awful necessity of the crucifixion. In terms of the latter, what I haven’t heard spoken about much is the agony of that hour, not for Jesus, but…
The Day the Curtain Tore
I can’t read those words without choking up. It’s such a simple verse and yet, to me, it is the crux of not just Israel’s history, but humanity’s. Maybe it’s how visual it is, or how matter-of-fact. But the simple words of Mark 15:38 negate our darkest hour, man’s expulsion from the Garden. Adam’s sin,…
Before the Fire 