Search results for: “holy week”
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Your Mistake – You don’t know the Scriptures
Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God. Matthew 22:29 NLT כְּתָב – a writing, document, edict Scriptures, the written word of God First, let’s understand scripture. It’s written down, recorded, a message of importance with authority; but scripture is much more than that. a…
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Feasts: Thanksgiving to God
“These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. – Leviticus 23:4 Feasts, Fasts & Festivals Americans view Thanksgiving as a defining national holiday, complete with feasts focused on our Utopian culture of American families. Yet a stark reality lingers as a less than an alternative…
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The Three o’clock Prayer Service
CHRISTIAN NEWS HEADLINES You will not see these HEADLINES in the Jerusalem News twenty-one centuries ago or even now. MIRACLE! ישוע המשיח עלה! Changes in Worship Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o’clock prayer service. Acts:3:1 NLT Post-resurrection Christians frequently miss some subtlety of detail in…
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and new things I now declare – 3
Advent 3 For those unfamiliar with Liturgical seasons like Advent, its most significant impact may be a calendar of study of appropriate scheduled scriptures. During Advent we celebrate the incarnation of Jesus, the Messiah who would have been well familiar with seasons celebrated in scripture and we celebrate the continuity of the Light of Christmas by…
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I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills – Psalm 121
Psalm 121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. I don’t know about you, but I have had a rough week. Perhaps you have had a tough month or maybe this past year didn’t go how you had hoped. So we come to a Sabbath rest, a time…
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Fully Trained – 2
The gospel of Luke carefully records truth from eyewitness accounts of numerous historical citizens of the first century. The following is a fictional representation continued from our previous episode of such eyewitness of one of Jesus’ first disciples. As I said before, we followed Jesus when the angry crowd drove him from our hometown Nazareth. Some…
