Tag: Mary
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It is finished.. + Death’s witnesses
The Sorrow of Souls Severed from each other Have you experienced it — the death of a loved one? Death pierces the flesh of those left to mourning in unspeakable ways, but most of all it severs from our soul that of another to which we have clung. Having breathed His last some time before,…
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Emmanuel -3
Introduction to God in a Manger We glanced at the introduction of Jesus in the Gospels of Mark and John in part 1 of this series. Yesterday in part 2 we examined issues of the virgin birth from the Gospel of Matthew. Today, Christmas, we conclude with scripture from Luke, our most familiar source of…
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For you will always have the poor – 2
“For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.” – John 12:1 NKJV This remark of Jesus cuts right to the quick, does it not? A sense of urgency here: the Son of Man is about to depart from the company of those the Lord came to save. An…
