Day 20, March 25
The passage that Jesus quotes in Aramaic comes from Psalm 22, one of David’s more famous psalms of lament.
Continue ReadingDay 19, March 24—Sabbath
Each Sunday during Lent, give yourself permission to reflect on all God has been speaking to you through His Word over the prior week.
Continue ReadingDay 18, March 23
The picture Jesus paints in His prayer to the Father is one of the unification of the saints under one banner, the name of the Most High God.
Continue ReadingDay 17, March 22
In Japan, there is a practice of adult adoption wherein a male in his twenties or thirties is adopted as a son in order to keep the family business…
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Just after college, Karl and Vanderlene Uebelhoer moved to Brazil to minister to “street children.” Even after they returned to the United States…
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Most people know the idiom “blood is thicker than water,” which is taken to mean familial ties are stronger than all others.
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In his letter to the Colossians, Paul describes Jesus as the “firstborn over all creation” (1:15). Paul did not mean this in the sense that Jesus was…
Continue ReadingDay 13, March 18
The origin of the word excruciating comes from the Latin root, crux, as in cross. Death by crucifixion is so painful that a word was created…
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