So often life’s lessons are learned in the opposites. We feel opposition in everything, and usually more readily relate to the opposition that pushes against us when we are trying our hardest to do right. But I’ve noticed in this time of uncertainty that we are also given positive opposites-glimpses of light and hope in …
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 …
In Luke chapter 7, there is a brief account of a miracle Jesus performed. Luke is the only writer of the gospels who mentions it, and the story is given only a brief few verses of text: “And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many …
