When he writes a song on the text “My Jesus, what affliction of the soul befell Thee in Gethsemane,” we feel in the plunging tritones the fall of Adam, and in the crushing suspensions, the sighs of Christ as he accepts the sins and sorrows of the world. These were the literal ...
So, without diving too deep into alot of this, because also….I’m not an expert in this field, I want to look at a historical interpretation of what happened to Jesus, and then look more broadly at what his story means for each of us to do. And no, its not about saving us from...
34Jesus said to Peter, “I tell you that before the cock crows tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me.” 35Peter answered, “I will never say that, even if I have to die with you!” And all the other disciples said the same thing. Jesus Prays in Gethsemane (...
He believes Mark could’ve run wearing only his bedclothes to the garden to warn Jesus, but it was too late. Mark’s inclusion of this story of the runner in the Garden of Gethsemane was his way of verifying his eyewitness of Jesus’s arrest. Why Do We Read Mark If He Wasn’t a ...
What Happened on the Tuesday before Easter? The next day, Peter noticed the fully withered fig tree Jesus had cursed, to which Jesus admonished a lesson to have faith and recognize the power of forgiveness: “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. "Truly I tell you, if anyone says to thi...
This is what has happened in the Republican Party and why I think they've gone so deep in villainizing Democrats. Unable to cope with their moral decline, they've had to make the Democrats seem worse, mitigate their moral anxiety, and justify their positions. The alternative before them was...
Isn’t that what Jesus did for us when He was betrayed, when He wept in the Garden of Gethsemane before His death? He thought of you and me, with each agonizing step He took dragging the cross, with each labored breath He took as He hung on the cross. He didn’t want us to carr...
What Happened on Good Friday? So how did Jesus die for us? What happened that day? The Bible says his disciple and friend Judas betrayed Jesus’ whereabouts in the Garden Gethsemane. He was arrested and taken to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest, which was an informal late-night mee...
Jesus wants the core of my being. And He is so committed to developing faith in me that He might not give pat answers, for those answers make trust unnecessary. Instead, He leads me to the open-ends, which usually means waiting and mystery and longing. The open-ends create space for ...
Putting my faith in action:I know my primary mission field: the three beautiful people who live in my house. I need to be working my mission field everyday. Secondarily, I also believe God is calling me to be active in encouraging other women to spend time with Jesus every day and to...