Have you ever felt that you are in God’s remedial class? You know the class where God keeps teaching the same lesson various ways until you get it. I don’t think that it is real thing, but it is the way I feel sometimes. The story of Moses with the…
Read moreWhen my daughter was in college, she spent a January semester in Ghana. I don’t remember all the stories she shared but I do remember her saying “Mom, if your feet are clean your whole body feels clean.” Today is Maundy Thursday the day when we remember and reflect upon…
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When in Israel, this was one of my favorite spots. The garden tomb, and the sign on the door that you see after you see the folded clothes on the empty bench inside the tomb. How many times have I read the angel’s words in Matthew’s account of the women…
Read moreAs we near Easter Weekend at the end of this week, I want to encourage everyone to remember exactly what Jesus said right before His life here on earth came to an end. His last words, after being scourged and hung on a cross to die, were words of forgiveness.…
Read more“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” ~ Zechariah 9:9 (ESV) For years I thought about the people…
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