He is Risen! As we bring our Lenten devotional series “The Way it Had to Be” full circle to Easter on our church calendar, we now end up exactly where the two men’s story in Luke 24 begins: Resurrection Sunday. For you and for me, we can see the necessity of the Cross, but “The […]
In the flow of the Lenten calendar, it’s Holy Saturday, Sabbath for the disciples, and the grave is cold, dark, and silent, awaiting tomorrow. There’s nothing to say. No words. Nothing good at least. But as we close out our devotional series for Lent, The Way it Had to Be, and in the flow of […]
Today is Good Friday on the Lenten calendar. There’s a darkness that’s unmistakable in our midst. Even today. Anger, violence, hatred—all things evil. Do you sense it? “It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple […]
Jesus is gone. The two men from the Road to Emmaus are alone with the awareness that they’d been with Jesus all along. He’s left them now. Let’s get some context. For the disciples, it hasn’t even been 24 hours since the tomb was discovered empty. Three days since He was crucified. Four, since the […]
Continuing in Luke’s narrative from chapter 24, Jesus has just up and vanished. Gone. Suddenly the two men who recognized Jesus now acknowledge that they’d felt it all along. They’d experienced conviction of sorts, but couldn’t quite put their fingers on it. Now that they’ve awakened to the reality of Jesus, they know what they’d […]
The two men on the Road to Emmaus had been joined in their journey by a stranger (who unbeknownst to them was Jesus Himself). They ask Him to stay the night because it was too dark to journey further. They sit down to a meal, He gives thanks, He breaks bread, and then poof! He’s […]
“But [the two men] urged [Jesus] strongly, ‘”‘Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.’” (Luke 24:29) It had been a very long day. Our entire devotional series “The Way It Had to Be” takes place on Resurrection Sunday. It began, as you recall, “that same day” when some of […]
The final week of our Lent Devotional Series “The Way it Had to Be” resumes tomorrow after today’s Palm Sunday Sabbath rest to meditate and worship. Today, reflect on the Hosannas He is due now and forevermore. The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to […]
“Don’t force your Christianity on me!” Yeah, if you’re a Christian and you try to be faithful in sharing the Gospel, you’ve probably heard that a time or two. Christianity isn’t a religion of force but an invitation to relationship. We get that from Jesus Himself, the author and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). […]
Remembering that Jesus is speaking with the two men on the Road to Emmaus and showing Himself in the Scriptures (which at the time were Moses and the Prophets) here is another one to which Jesus may have pointed. Daniel 7:13 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like […]
