Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions: What is true? What is important? What, now, shall we do?
Easter Monday Reflections
Easter is about sin. And redemption. And the wrath of God. Our ticklish ears no longer desire to hear this Truth. We prefer to ignore that there is such a thing as God's wrath. The realization of it makes us uneasy, so we dismiss it. Others try to believe there is no...
Passion Play, Act 4, Scene 3
The Road To Emmaus But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. And, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. Luke 24:21 Look for the second right answer. Everything that the disciples said was correct, but the...
Passion Play, Act 4, Scene 2
The beauty of the Easter story, powerfully captured in a version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah: https://bit.ly/3Oi66cs A crown of thorns placed on His headHe knew that He would soon be deadHe said did you forget me Father did you?They nailed Him to a wooden crossSoon...
Passion Play, Act 4, Scene 1
A Day Like Any Other
Saturday, Jerusalem, Circa 33 AD It is the Jewish Sabbath. The city is quiet. The air above the city lacks the usual thousand little trails of smoke from cookfires. Hymns rise from the temple. Families are indoors. The soldiers are back in their barracks. The Chief...
Good Friday
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 suff'ring and shame,And I love that old cross where the Dearest and...
Passover Circa 33 AD; Hallel
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...
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /10
Be Prepared Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. Matthew 25:13 NKJV Since 1907, the motto of the Boy Scouts movement (and many Girl Scouts organizations) has been, "Be Prepared." Robert Baden-Powell, the founder...
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /9
The Battle “If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the Truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the...
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /8
Fill in the blank. There will be a test later. Defend The Truth. Live The Faith. Advance The Kingdom.
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /Palm Sunday Version
The King Comes to Jerusalem The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the...
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /7
"So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female." Genesis 1:27 HCSB Christians don't get verklempt over the use of the pronoun him or her. Why? Because we take our identity from Christ. And since we know what...
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /6
Feminism, gender confusion, wokeism, wars, abortion, fallacious worldviews, and on and on. All of these pieces parts are not disparate things. They are all weapons in the Enemy's Grand Scheme Ministry ("GSM") against the Kingdom. Defend The Truth. Live The Faith....
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /5
Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. Happy are those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole heart. Psalm 119:1-2 A Christian's first input of the day should not be his email, the IM's that might have come in overnight,...
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /4
The unsaved become angry when you tell them the truth. Christians become angry when you lie to us. Defend The Truth. Live The Faith. Advance The Kingdom.
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /3
Charles Spurgeon (1835 - 1892) explicates yesterday's post (Romans 1): "Sinful people do not let the truth work in their hearts. They do not allow it to operate in their minds; instead, they try to make it an excuse for their sins. Some people attend church for years;...
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /2
We are considering the question "If you knew Jesus was returning tomorrow, what would you do differently today?" Here, for context, is the inspired Word of God written by Paul, somewhere between Corinth and Jerusalem, circa 57 AD: The wrath of God is being revealed...
If You Knew Jesus Was Returning Tomorrow, What Would You Do Differently Today? /1
We interrupt our reverie on prayer to pose this question: If you knew Jesus was returning tomorrow,* what would you do differently today? We will return to the theme of prayer soon enough. But over the next few days we are going to explore the worldview framework for...
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