Tag: resurrection

  • 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…

  • 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