Something happened. Mary Magdalene was the first to arrive at the tomb, very early in the morning – expecting, as was the custom, to be able to anoint Christ’s body. Imagine her shock, then, when, arriving at the tomb, the guards who had been placed there were no where to be found. The 1.5 to […]
When I was a little boy, I couldn’t wait until I was able to receive Holy Communion in my church.Through the years, I’ve gained a deeper and more profound understanding of Communion which began as a Passover meal and our Lord’s “Last Supper”.To have a greater appreciation for Holy Communion, and our Lord’s Last Supper,
Among many others, the internationally renowned Libera boys choir from South London, U.K., is an amazingly beautiful example of the “light of the world” that Christ speaks of in this piece from His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:14-16). “… Nor do they light a candle and put it under a basket [some translations use
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As our journey through Lent continues, I thought I’d create a Red Letter Meme with Christ’s answer to the devil’s first temption. Very interestingly, according to Luke 4, as Christ, the Bread of Life (John 6), comes to the end of His 40-day journey through the wilderness, He quotes a passage from Deuteronomy 8 as
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Many years ago, a prominent pastor I know gave a “red letter edition” of the Bible to a friend with the instructions to read “only the words printed in red”.A few weeks later, the friend came back and met up with the pastor. The friend had read the words that were printed in red and
