March 2018

Enemies Meet at the Cross

While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man – though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.  But God shows His love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.  Since, […]

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Palm Sunday King, Easter King

They that went before, and they that followed, cried out, saying, “Hosanna; Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord:  Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, which comes in the Name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.”        Mark 11:9-10 Palm Sunday is a day of contrasts.  That’s one of

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Pollyana Glad or Good Friday Joy

We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God       I Corinthians 1:23-24 Disney’s Pollyanna is a feel-good movie about a girl, orphaned from missionary parents, who would always

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To the Core of Being

“This is the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My People.     Jeremiah 31:33 In the same way, after the supper He took

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Who Am I?

Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.  He said all this quite openly.  And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.        Mark 8:31-32 [27-38]

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Look to Live

The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.      Numbers

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