It’s a funny thing– (not ha ha funny, but strange funny) –I have reminded my congregation for years that Good Friday is, for sinners saved by God’s grace through the cross of Christ, the holiest day of the year. On this day, we commemorate the fact that our sins, our death, our wrath rightly deserved, […]
Archive: April, 2019
April 18, 2019
The scene: the garden of Gethsemane. Jesus has left most of His disciples further behind Him, and has left Peter, James, and John a little bit behind Him, and He has fallen to the ground in prayer. There He prays, “Daddy– Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me.” (Mark 14:36) […]
April 12, 2019
It seems like we just about make it away from gruesome and grotesque stories about the living dead– and then they almost seem to be given a new life… if you can say that. The trope is quite common now: living corpses, reanimated, walking among us. Similar, perhaps, to college students before coffee, first thing […]