How strange, how strange in so many ways. It’s Easter and, yet, we find ourselves back in Lent. We find ourselves again on Thursday, the night of Jesus’ betrayal. It is the Thursday before Good Friday, but also the Thursday before Christ’s resurrection. The disciples, minus Judas, had just eaten the Passover meal. They had […]
Easter Sermon: Matthew 28:1-10
April 24, 2011 by
Could there be a more glorious day than this? For this day, the day of Jesus’ resurrection, will blaze forever in its glory and beam forth the light of heaven. Indeed, this day, the day of Jesus’ resurrection, is by far the most glorious day of all time. For Christ is risen! He is risen, […]
Good Friday: John 19:31-37
April 22, 2011 by
Tonight, our Lenten journey ends. It ends, just as Jesus said it would end. Several times, Jesus said that He was going to Jerusalem, where many would mock and ridicule Him. His own people would hand Him over to the Gentiles to be beaten and crucified. He was going to Jerusalem to die. Yet, more […]
Maundy Thursday, Matthew 26:26-30
April 21, 2011 by
Could Jesus have made it any simpler? It is Thursday, and Jesus is with His disciples in a borrowed room. They are there to celebrate the Jewish feast of Passover. They are there for the yearly remembrance of Israel’s rescue from their slavery in Egypt. They recall that glorious rescue from God. They remember when […]
Palm Sunday: Philippians 4:4-9
April 17, 2011 by
Lent is now ending. And so we start to lay our Lenten meditations aside, and walk with our Lord through the last week of His earthly life. For this is the week of weeks. And in this week, our Lord is especially calling you to fix your eyes on Him. As we enter Holy Week, […]
Jesus’ Glory Hidden in His Powerful Word: Luke 23:32-43
April 13, 2011 by
We have finally followed Jesus up to the hill called Golgotha, the place of the skull. At the beginning of Lent, Jesus called us to follow Him there, not so we could help Him, but that He would show us His true glory hidden in the cross. But, oh, how deep is the humiliation […]
Lent 5: Genesis 22:1-14
April 10, 2011 by
God asked Abraham to do the unthinkable: “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will point out to you” (Genesis 22:2-3). Isaac was the son of the promise, the one born […]
Jesus’ Glory Hidden in His Stumbling and Falling: Mark 15:17-21
April 6, 2011 by
Is it not astonishing? It is just as Jesus said it would be. The soldiers mock Him. They beat and scourge Him. And to make sure Jesus’ humiliation is complete, they bow down to Him in mock worship. The angels, who love Jesus and have worshipped Him since their creation, do not intervene. The […]
Lent 4: Galatians 4:21-31
April 3, 2011 by
Abraham had two sons: Ishmael and Isaac. They were both sons of Abraham, but there was an enormous difference in how they came to be born! Do you remember the promise God made to Abraham? God told Abraham that he would be the father of a nation with as many people as the stars in […]
Hidden in the Savior’s Rejection by the World: Luke 18:33-19:1
March 30, 2011 by
What a contrast we have between Jesus and Pilate? On one side is Jesus. He testifies that He is a king, but that His kingdom is not of this world. He testifies that all who are on the side of truth listen to Him: they hear and follow His Word, believe in Him, trust Him, […]
