What Now 2 Do

He cannot do anything deliberate now. The strain of His whole weight on His outstretched arms hurts too much. The pain fills Him up, displaces thought, as much for Him as it has for everyone else who has ever been nailed to one of these horrible contrivances, or for...

When we think of Easter and Christ's sacrifice on the cross, we often think of the iconic hymn The Old Rugged Cross. The lyrics are rich: On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,The emblem of suffering and shame,And I love that old cross where the Dearest and...

Jesus begins His trek to Golgatha. Once there, he will be nailed to the cross, crucified that we might be reconciled to our Creator and have eternal life. #Easter2023, 13/42

It’s FridayJesus is prayingPeter’s a sleepingJudas is betrayingBut Sunday’s comin’ It’s FridayPilate’s strugglingThe council is conspiringThe crowd is vilifyingThey don’t even knowThat Sunday’s comin’ It’s FridayThe disciples are runningLike sheep without a...

The Passion of Christ (Note 1) describes the eighteen odd hours from when Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane (“… yet not as I will, but as You will”) until His death on the cross. During these hours Jesus is arrested, abandoned, tortured, tried, sentenced to...

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new...

Act 1 - Dinner Reservations, The Last Supper Jesus knows His time as Son of Man on earth is nearing an end. It is time for the Passover. He instructs His disciples to prepare the Passover meal. "On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came...

Passover was approaching. The leading priests and teachers of religious law were plotting how to kill Jesus, but they were afraid of the people's reaction. Then Satan entered into Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve disciples, and he went to the leading priests...

It is Passion Week. Tuesday finds Jesus continuing to teach and heal. By Whose Authority? When He had returned to the Temple and was teaching, the chief priests and other Jewish leaders came up to Him and demanded to know by whose authority He had thrown out the...

In this final week before Passover, Jesus went to the temple every day to teach and heal. He knew that the time available for his earthly mission was running short. And His human patience was also running short. We witness an example of righteous anger. On Monday...

As Jesus approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, He sent two of the disciples and said, “Go into the village ahead of you. As you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If...

This, then, is Palm Sunday, the beginning of the final week of Jesus’s ministry on earth, and the day of His triumphant entry into Jerusalem. It was Passover week. Multitudes were arriving in Jerusalem for the Passover celebration. The significance of the timing will...

Saturday. Jerusalem. Circa 33 AD. Passover was near and the Jewish people were on their annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Jesus, too, neared the city. But His Jerusalem was to be unlike any other. Along the way Jesus and His apostles stop in Bethany to visit long time...

Tomorrow we rejoin Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem. To a Passover that would be unlike any other. In the greatest love-story of all time. We head to the cross. #Easter2023