Maundy Thursday – Holy Week 2018

Thursday A meal, a prayer, a cave The Passages John 14:23-29 “Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember,[…]

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Wednesday of Holy Week

Wednesday  A day of rest and preparation  The Passages Luke 22:1-6 The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is also called 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,[…]

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Tuesday of Holy Week

Tuesday Clashes with the religious leaders, the end of the age, and back to Bethany The Passages Matthew 23: 1-8 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. So practice and obey whatever[…]

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Holy Week Reflections – Monday

Monday Cleansing the Temple, cursing a fig tree, weeping over Jerusalem, back to Bethany The Passages Matthew 21:1-22  In the morning, as Jesus was returning to Jerusalem, he was hungry, and he noticed a fig tree beside the road. He went over to see if there were any figs, but there[…]

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Heaviness

A lot has happened in the last 24 hours. It’s an incredible thing to see things a second time after so many years. Many of the places we have visited are familiar. But even in the familiarity there are many new experiences and new ways of seeing the familiar. The[…]

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When History is more than story

One of my college professors invited me into a journey that changed my life. I remember sitting in a Life of Christ class with Dennis Ingolfsland when he mentioned this strange group of “historians” named the Jesus Seminar. I put the word historians in quotes because they were motivated largely[…]

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Israel 2018 – Day 1 (plus a few hours here and there)

Reflections There is a wonderful feeling that occurs when you come home. Sometimes it’s easy to misplace that feeling. Coming home on a normal day can be somewhat underwhelming. But go away for a while, and coming home is totally different…it’s like, well, coming home. This “coming home” feeling has[…]

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Silent or Silence

One of the more exciting stories in the Old Testament is found in 1 Kings 18. It’s a story of a bold prophet standing against a vile king, a hateful queen and 450 false prophets. It occurs following a very long drought – no rain that dried up and crippled[…]

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