This Sunday is Palm Sunday. Throughout the history of Christianity the Church has remembered the “Triumphal Entry” of Jesus into Jerusalem one week before Resurrection Sunday. The event is a strange paradox. On Palm Sunday the crowds are celebrating Jesus with shouts of “Hosanna”. A short time later the crowds were demanding the death of Jesus. […]
This Sunday we will be looking at two narratives in Luke’s Gospel. We will focus on Luke 22:54-71. In this section three scenes unfold. The first is focused on Peter and his three denials of Jesus. The second is guards mocking and beating Jesus after his arrest. The third is the religious leaders who question
This week we will be in Luke 22:39-53. In the first half of this section Jesus is praying with deep sorrow regarding Calvary. Two times he challenges the disciples regarding prayer and the ever present reality of temptation. Another word for temptation is “trial”. As we all know we all face trials and temptations on
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We are in the season of Lent as we look towards Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. This Sunday we will remember the body and the blood of Jesus at the Communion table. We will be in Luke 22:24-38. In this passage we find the disciples in a “dispute”. Strange enough, Jesus has just taught them
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When was the last time you fasted? Why? What was your experience with it? Lent is a season of repentance and fasting in anticipation of and preparation for remembering and celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus. Fasting can be seriously misunderstood and misapplied. It can become something that crushes us with insecurity, or puffs
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