Can you imagine what that Saturday was like? Terrified disciples hid for their lives. Prophecies appeared to be unfulfilled. Had God forgotten Israel (see Isaiah 49:16)? Was there no hope? Had John the Baptist been wrong? Had Jesus just been a miracle-working but deceived lunatic, claiming to be One with God, His Father? Worse, was […]
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Why do we call it “Good” Friday? The only Man with no sin of His own, was betrayed, arrested, convicted at a mock trial by jealous and angry hypocrites, brutally beaten, tortured, abandoned, shamed, and killed. Good? Only for those who receive the gift that He paid so much to offer. A gift can
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Jesus shares another parable, one of His last. This one describes the utter depravity of man. The very “spiritual leaders” who were to have shared the truth of God, His Creation, His plan for mankind, His love, mercy, and grace? How had they (their ancestors over the centuries) treated the prophets? How were they about
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We continue Easter Week devotions from the book of Isaiah. The Old Testament book of Isaiah has often been referred to as the “Fifth Gospel” for its many prophetic references to the coming Messiah, and his sacrificial death…centuries in the future. Imagine how Isaiah must have wondered, how he must have been amazed at the
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