Good Friday – Jesus is God’s Invitation!
An invitation that is still fresh, vital, and alive
Lent: truth in the inward being
yesterday evening, as scores of people lined up to receive the mark of the cross in ashes, I felt drawn toward the desire for truth in my inner being. It's going to be quite a journey.
be a Holy Week Jesus radical and reject “business as usual”
Don't be radically political... or radically loud in your "witnessing;" don't be obnoxious for Jesus... Instead try being radically kind, exorbitantly generous, prodigiously loving, enormously humble, outrageously peaceful, boundlessly self-sacrificing, extraordinarily submissive - radically like Jesus.
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Palm Sunday Images
please enjoy the slide show below. Share in our joy as an energetic, growing, Christ-centered congregation. And be encouraged in your own walk as a follower of Jesus.
Easter Day, re-creation, and an invitation to Act II
So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! (2 Corinthians 5:17) I can’t think of a better Easter morning image than that of Jerusalem! I can just imagine Jesus, right after the resurrection, hiking up to the top of the Mt.…
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Hosanna in the highest heaven!
It’s Palm Sunday! I’m back home! I’ll share guest blogger Rebekah Maul’s Lenten devotion for today. Peace – DEREK “Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! “Hosanna in the highest heaven!” Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around…
Jerusalem = the perfect balance of people, history, archeology and faith
Jesus said, “For a brief time still, the light is among you. Walk by the light you have so darkness doesn’t destroy you. If you walk in darkness, you don’t know where you’re going. As you have the light, believe in the light. Then the light will be within you, and shining through your lives.…
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Healing and an Empty Tomb: Jerusalem the final act
After we left the Church of the Resurrection we enjoyed our last Middle-Eastern lunch – the classic combo of “falafel” and strong coffee. Then Rebekah and I continued all the way down the Via Dolorosa to “The Pool of Bethesda.” People from our church (First Presbyterian Church of Brandon) are going to laugh when I…
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Jerusalem: The Last Day (part one)
Reading from the Gospel of Matthew: After they had mocked Jesus, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. They came to…
Gethsemane, betrayal, politics, and grace…
One of the exciting things about travel is posing for those long anticipated “bucket list” photographs. You know, the one’s you had in mind from the time you first imagined the trip. This tour was full with such “Kodachrome” moments and Jerusalem Day Two was no exception. The Old City from the Mount of Olives…
