Posted by: admin in: ● March 29, 2013
GENESIS 1:1 -2:2 OR 1:1, 26-31A · GENESIS 22: 1-18 OR 22:1-2,9A, 10-13, 15-18 • EXODUS 14:15- 15:1 · ISAIAH 54 :5-14 • ISAIAH 55:1-11 · BARUCH 3:9-15,32 – 4:4 • EZEKIEL 36:16-17A,18-28 · ROMANS 6:3-11 · LUKE 24:1-12 Joy Lives “Why do you seek the living one among the dead?” LUKE 24:5 Has there [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● March 28, 2013
ISAIAH 52:13-53:12 · HEBREWS 4:14-16; 5:7-9 · JOHN 18:1-19:42 Offering Up When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.” And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit. JOHN 19:30 Even in unspeakable agony, in John’s passion account, Jesus is in control. Fulfilling Psalm 69 by taking the sour wine, he has [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● March 27, 2013
EXODUS 12:1-8, 11-14 • 1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26 · JOHN 13:1-15 Letting God Touch Us He rose from the supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel…. [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● March 26, 2013
ISAIAH 50:4-9A • MATTHEW 26:14-25 Judas’ End Then one of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● March 25, 2013
ISAIAH 49:1-6 • JOHN 13:21-33, 36-38 The Ultimate Glory When he had left, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.” JOHN 13:31 This statement of Jesus comes just after Judas leaves the table to betray him, and just before he predicts that Peter will deny him three [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● March 24, 2013
ISAIAH 42:1-7 · JOHN 12:1-11 Doing Our Part Jesus came to Bethany …. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil … and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair. [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● March 23, 2013
LUKE 19:28-40 ·ISAIAH 50:4-7 · PH IL IPPIANS 2:6-11 • LUKE 22:14 – 23:56 OR LUKE 23:1-49 The Prayer of All Life Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” LUKE 23:46 One Holy Week my mother and I were talking about this prayer. It was anything but [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● March 22, 2013
EZEKIEL 37:21-28 · JOHN 11:45-56 Transforming Love “It is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish.” … . So from that day on they planned to kill him. JOHN 11:50-53 Jesus has just raised Lazarus from the dead before today’s passage begins. [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● March 21, 2013
JEREMIAH 20:10-13 • JOHN 10:31-42 The Works of God “If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me; but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● March 20, 2013
GENESIS 17:3-9 · JOHN 8:51-59 Here To Help So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” JOHN 8:57-58 This is one of eight “I AM” statements in John’s [...]