Jesus and Barabbas: The Scapegoat and the Sacrifice Last week in the first Station of the Cross, we discovered how and why Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for sin, He was examined and judged seven times to be without sin. I want to paint one more picture before we walk along the Via Dolorosa with the Lord. On the Day of Atonement, there were certain requirements of the high priest and the people. First, it was a day of humiliation ...
This is the air I breathe, this is the air I breathe, Your holy presence living in me. This is my daily bread, this is my daily bread, Your very word spoken to me. And I’m desperate for You, I’m lost without you. (Michael W. Smith) My mother was in the hospital in a medically induced coma, and a ventilator breathing for her. She had been there five weeks after a heart attack, and her lungs collapsing. This turn of events was brought on by the last stages of ALS, better ...
“The next day the huge crowd that had arrived for the Feast heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem. They broke off palm branches and went out to meet him. And they cheered: Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in God’s name! Yes! The King of Israel!…The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb, raising him from the dead, was there giving eyewitness accounts. It was because they had spread the word of this latest God-sign that the crowd swelled to a welcoming parade. The Pharisees ...
God is the author of all my days. He determined when I would enter into the world, and He's determined when I will make my exit. God alone deserves all my praise.
Ephesians 2: 17-22 (Amplified) And He came and preached the glad tidings of peace to you who were afar off and [peace] to those who were near. For it is through Him that we both [whether far off or near] now have an introduction (access) by one [Holy] Spirit to the Father [so that we are able to approach Him]. Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens, excluded from the rights of citizens), but you now share citizenship with the saints (God’s ...
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