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The Via Dolorosa
Good Friday? Ordinarily we do not associate “good” with flogging, bleeding, thorny crowns, extreme hunger and thirst, nail-pierced hands, feet and side, indescribable pain, bile, death, grave and burial. That…
Passion Week: What Judas Missed!!
Let me start with some humor. So I decided to find out how many people have named their child “Judas” and this is what I found: “…The apostle, Judas Iscariot, betrayed…
Passion Week: The Fig Tree
(Matthew 21:18-21, Mark 11:20-26) On Monday, as Jesus was returning to Jerusalem from Bethany where He spent the night, He felt hunger pangs. He sees a fig tree in full…
Passion Week
I’ve been reflecting somberly on the week of Easter, especially the five days leading to Good Friday: how Jesus must have felt and what the disciples were thinking. How do…
Smooth Talkers
King Hezekiah of Judah was in a tight spot. He was desperate, afraid and felt dejected. Sennacherib, king of Assyria had laid siege against Judah, he had captured some of…
G.I.G.O.
GIGO stands for garbage in, garbage out which simply means faulty or poor input will produce faulty or poor output. Whatever you allow to fill your mind or heart will…
Store Up Treasures
As we go about life working hard, saving up, investing, doing whatever it takes to make life comfortable for ourselves, our children, dependents and generations to come, we must not…
We Sink or Swim Together
The great Apostle Paul likens the body of Christ (the church/all Christians) to the human body. In 1 Cor 12, he describes how the different parts of the human body…
Sleep
Do you sometimes feel like if you worry enough you might prevent bad things from happening or you can hurry good things into existence? Personally I do not think worrying…
Forgive
Forgiveness seems to be one of the hardest things for Christians to do. We are Christians because we believed in Jesus and God forgave our sins. He still forgives us…