Tag: betrayal
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12 Men Texting as their Messiah approaches – Part 2
A Context to Texting You may find the photo headline of this post somewhat whimsical, but my incongruous placement of 21st century communications devices into first century Jewish hands comes with a purpose. Just imagine yourself in this scene of controversy. The very irony of our recent look back at the seriousness of what Daniel…
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For you will always have the poor – 5
Help the poor later or honor Jesus now? Sell everything you have and follow me. Leave your hometown and follow me. Give up you job and follow me. These things Jesus had asked of his followers and for three years they all followed on foot. The culmination of events, so it seemed, came two days before…
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Am I the One?
The Plot to Kill Jesus ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.”’ In the evening, Jesus arrived with his twelve disciples. [from the Gospel of Matthew] Jesus has cleansed the Temple, clearing its courts of the money-changers and sinners selling the sacrifice of…
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Our Sin
Psalm 51 English Standard Version (ESV) Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in…
