Tag: God

  • Endurance Toward the Cross

    …let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,  who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame… Hebrews 12:1b-2a Jesus had walked… for three years (by comparison to eternity, a blink of an eye). Having been handed the…

    silhouette of Jesus seated on a donkey overlooking Jerusalem
  • 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…