Look, see, pay attention. What comes after this invitation is important. Something we are going to want to witness or regard. In its most significant place, it comes before introductions to Jesus Christ. From His Father, His cousin, Himself. Behold my Beloved Son. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the …
How awful those few days were for the disciples of Christ! All of their dreams and expectations seemed shattered. Uncertainty and sorrow filled their hearts. Dark, hopeless, utter despair; and above all, the relentless question of ‘why?’ How was it possible that the Messiah could be overcome by the wickedness of men? Where was His …
Why do we seek the living among the dead? There is nothing there but emptiness. And yet it is where we often look. But there is One who brings life out of death and fills what is empty. Who shines light into darkness. Who repairs that which is broken. Who creates peace out of conflict. …
In the musical presentation, “Lamb of God*,” at the very darkest moment of the last week of Jesus Christ’s life-the death of Jesus on the cross, his mother, Mary, sings: He who healed our sorrows, here was bruised and broken. He whose love no end knows, here was forsaken, left all alone. Here despair cries …
Just before the last week of His mortal life, Jesus was sent word that His friend, Lazarus, was desperately sick. Jesus, knowing what was to come, delayed His return to Judea, and Lazarus died before He came. When Jesus came to the home of Lazarus, his sisters were grief stricken and both said essentially the …
