Tag: death

  • Three Widows & a Widower

    Fifteen years ago I became a widower. (We had been married more than two decades.) I know personally the loss of the widow (& widower). Jesus spoke of three widows: one, in a parable on the persistence of prayer to God one, of an unnamed widow who sacrificed only two mites to God at the Temple (leptons…

  • Sanctuary

    Some refer to the ‘place’ where the church shares in corporate worship as family of Christ Jesus as “the sanctuary.” (Of course, the “church” is the worshipers.)  Exodus 25:8 KJV And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. The place may be worthy of the grandeur of the Living God or the place…

  • The Beloved Apostle

    Liturgically, we generally do not mention the encounters of the risen Christ during Lent; however as His disciples in these last days let us examine the love of Jesus for us through the letters of the Beloved Apostle: John. Jesus and the Beloved Apostle John 21:20 Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them……

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