Tag: grief

  • 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
  • Resurrection Before Jesus

    Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son Luke 7:11 Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and…

    Nain funeral procession where Jesus first raised a boy from the dead
  • Redemption

    I want to tell you a story of an old woman and one of a young woman; a story of relationship and temptation. 2 Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. Scene I is in Jerusalem, about a thousand years or ten centuries after this record of Samuel from…