It’s the final day of Lent, often called Holy Saturday, and our Lent devotional series Light: There’s Nothing Like It is drawing to a close. The true Light upon the earth was extinguished in Jesus’ death. There is nothing but darkness and silence almost as if people consider Saturday just a filler in Holy Week. […]
I always find myself wondering if anyone watching the events unfolding as Jesus was betrayed and scourged and crucified…”Didn’t anyone have a conscience to bother them about what was happening?” It was a black Friday for the conscience, a Good Friday for what Jesus did with it. He paid it all. In the world of […]
It’s Maundy Thursday. In the progression of the final week of Jesus’ life, it’s getting dark, really dark. He knows He’s nearing the end of His earthly ministry so He observes His final Passover with His beloved disciples, one of whom will betray Him. Jesus takes the bread and the cup and transforms the Passover […]
Parents hate it when their kids fight. Unless that parent is our Father in heaven and the fight is the good fight of the faith, embracing His cleansing Light. Fighting that fight is good because perseverance in our good confession brings glory to God. 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take […]
The end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it is a concept we’ve probably known since Noah survived the Flood. Having witnessed the end of the world as he knew it, it wouldn’t surprise him to see it happen again. After all, it’s easier to believe something so horrible happening a second time than to imagine it ever happening for the first […]
Have you ever bought canned Lite fruit at the grocery store? Sometimes, it’s real fruit packaged with fruit juices and no added sugar. Sometimes it’s real fruit packaged with an artificial sweetener. It’s pretending to be healthful when really, it’s not the real thing. The Christian life can be the same way. Real fruit and […]
Matthew 21:1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone […]
Throughout this 2017 Lenten devotional series, Light: There’s Nothing Like It, we’ve seen that light is an amazing creation and a very apt metaphor for everything from witnessing to righteousness, from the hope of the Gospel to the assurance of salvation, and from the Christian community’s relationship to the world to that same dark world’s […]
Do you ever feel like giving up? Just throwing up your hands and saying this whole Christian thing just simply isn’t worth it? Maybe you’re under spiritual attack or even persecution. Maybe you’re just plain tired. In those moments of temptation and feeling under pressure, I remember the journey Jesus embarked on. Pressing on to Jerusalem. […]
Display on the outside what’s on the inside. Consider it like truth in advertising. No one prefers those chocolate bunnies at Easter that you bite its head off and there’s nothing but air inside. We all like something solid, something true, something reliable, and something that communicates on the outside what is truly on the […]
