A Legacy of Love
What could be more amazing than arriving at the tomb and finding it empty, meeting an angel, discovering that the person you thought was dead is really alive and loves you more than you can even imagine? Easter fills us with hope that grows stronger and stronger with each year, each season. Sometimes it seems like winter will never pass and that spring will never come, but then there it is! Warmth and love and life and flowers! It’s far, far deeper and broader and eternally more significant than Easter eggs and baskets and bonnets… it’s the very life of the Risen Savior in...
Read MoreWho Was Jesus?
As we meditate on the events of Good Friday, we often wonder Who was this man? Coming from a Western cultural background, our mind fills with images from our childhood of what Jesus might have looked like and how He behaved, often forgetting that He was of humble Middle Eastern background, a young Hebrew man deeply steeped by His own choosing in the teachings, traditions, and worldview of his heritage. What we call the “Last Supper” was really a Passover Seder in which the bread of life was the Aphikoman and the cup was a cup of Redemption and Acceptance at the culmination of the...
Read MorePassover 2014
Tonight on April 14 at sundown begins the 2014 Passover week, heralded by a full moon which this year will be darkened into a “blood moon” by an unusual eclipse (see previous post). Observant believers will be celebrating a ceremonial meal called a Seder following an age-old format outlined in a book of order called a Haggadah or “text” which contains biblical narrative about the exodus of the Hebrew people from their captivity in Egypt under God’s miraculous leadership through Moses. Click here to read more about the Seder and its significance for today. And if...
Read MoreChrist, Our Passover
Please read the attached article written by David Kubal, president of Intercessors for America, entitled The Heavens are Speaking, and prayerfully meditate on your relationship with Jesus, The Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5.7). Give thanks to the Lamb of God who gave His live for our sins (John 1.29). As time moves rapidly toward its conclusion, consider the prophetic implications of the 2014 Passover date, “knowing the time… for our salvation is nearer than when we first believed” (Roman 13.11). Intercede with us for families, neighborhoods, communities, and the entire...
Read MoreAs Passover approached, Jesus wept
But not for Himself. He wept with and for us all. Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted....
Read MoreOpen-Air Drug Market
Shootings and homicides are often just the fruit of the tree called crime. The roots are usually in drugs. Dr. William Morehouse has been helping people for 35 years at Grace Family Medicine on Arnett Boulevard. But how he and his wife Susan need help to save their neighborhood from the drug dealers right outside their front door. “Is there a real safety issue here,” I asked him. “The patients certainly think that there is. They’re very worried when they get out of their car and they see people like that and they have to walk past them or through them,”...
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