Many of us are celebrating Easter, Resurrection Sunday, alone this year. We are able to connect to our pastor’s message and the music electronically but those who would be sitting around us are not seen. They are there but not visible to us in any meaningful way. It makes me think of how we view…
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Passion Week: His Walk Alone
With the world in various levels of isolation today, a meaningful thread of Passion Week can be seen as Jesus makes a walk into aloneness. His week started out surrounded by crowds calling for His coronation and singing His praises. And the crowds that went before Him and that followed Him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son…
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The Invitation of the Resurrection
In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the…
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My Redeemer Lives
I know that my Redeemer lives. Job 19:25 Hallelujah! We celebrate the empty tomb and the resurrection of Jesus who paid for our sins. The popular song with those words is sung as a hymn of victory over death. It’s a joyous time. The passage those lyrics come from may surprise you. It wasn’t at a…
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