Body piercing has become pretty much acceptablejust in the last ten years. Studs are placed in a hole or piercing to make a permanent decoration. I have seen a fair amount of it, and I think that a stud in the tongue has got to be the most intrusive. (I recently read of a young ...
February 18 — Purifying Power of Blood.General Conference, ‘The Purifying Power of Gethsemane’, April 1985“I am one of his witnesses, and in a coming day I shall feel the nail marks in his hands and in his feet and shall wet his feet with my tears. But I shall not know any bet...
I should be at Gethsemane practicing with the Music & Drama Crew… but I’m not. Interestingly enough – here is a post sitting in my drafts from two years ago, July 24, 2017… Titled: Missing Music & Drama It’s Saturday morning, July 24 at 10:16 AM. I should be frantically runni...
Jesus’ intercessory prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane was a most significant act. Even though He was God Incarnate, His human nature both dreaded and struggled against the reality of His impending death. The survival instinct is the most powerful and irrepressible of all human instincts. It sh...
This is why the darkness and the torment of the Garden of Gethsemane. This is why your pains, sacrifices, sorrows, anguish. This is why, children, the feeling of being alone and abandoned by your God. This is why the feeling that you are more and more “nothing.” You live what I ...
3. Gethsemane-the Betrayal and Arresta) Agony in the Gardenb) Betrayal by Judas-Jesus Arrested4. Trial before the SanhedrinLegal and Historical Aspectsa) Before Annas and Caiaphas-the Unjust Judgmentb) The Threefold Denialc) Remorse and Suicide of Judas5. Trial before Pilatea) The Attitude ...
During His Grief at Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives (Matthew 26:36), according to His divine nature, Jesus knows He must drink the cup of suffering of His pending sacrificial death. As man, He wishes the chalice to pass, for it is a mark of humanity to abhor death and struggle ...
In the 15th century, the building was taken over by the Moslems and converted into a mosque in the 16th century. Jews and Christians were only allowed access to the building again in 1948 after the War of Independence. Gethsemane The garden where Jesus came to pray before his arrest lies ...
After all, isn’t that just what Jesus did for us when he was “cornered” in the Garden of Gethsemane? “This sorrow is crushing my life out,” he told his disciples. “Stay here and keep vigil with me.” Then he prayed, “My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this...
The Prayer in Gethsemane 32 They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. And He said to His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 He took Peter and James and John with Him and began to be greatly distressed and very troubled. 34 And He said to them, “My soul is deeply ...