In Famous Last Words -Part 1, I shared about one of Jesus’s last statements, “Father forgive them”. Today, I share another insight from these same three words. Christ died for us while we were still sinners, long before we ever repented or asked for forgiveness. He died for those still screaming,…
Read moreIn the Bible, Numbers chapter 20 gives the account which impacted Moses severely as he led the Israelites to the promised land. Repeatedly the people complained and blamed Moses for their misery. Their constant cry was, “Why have you brought us into this wilderness to die? Why did you make…
Read moreThe Lenten devotional email included the words of Ecclesiastes 3 and those words couldn’t have been more on target. It was a day when my daughter was attending the funeral for the mother of one of her closest friends as I was attending a wedding – a time to mourn…
Read moreAs I watched a television show recently, one of the scenes stirred my thoughts. A man who had committed a terrible crime was behind bars in prison and the person standing outside the bars was the victim. This victim’s life would never be the same and it was clear that…
Read moreI never realized until a few years ago that there aren’t actually forty days between Ash Wednesday and Easter. I never counted them. I had learned as a child that Ash Wednesday started the season of Lent, that you gave up something, that Lent is about Jesus’ time in wilderness…
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