Four Days After Resurrection Sunday

It’s 4 days after Resurrection Sunday.  We’ve stood before the flower covered cross and marked this day in our lives.  We’ve given thanks for this life we have in our risen Christ.  We’ve eaten Easter dinner and candy.  We’ve even made Easter candy cookies. This week my devotional book has me reading the events and […]

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Red Jesus and Blue Mary – Part 2

Blue Mary stands tall above her guardian angels and her seahorses.  She dares not look to her right to glimpse her son, Red Jesus.  She stood strong as he hung upon the cross.  She held her head high even as he was humiliated.  Her tears fell.  Her hands shook.  But she wouldn’t leave her son.  […]

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Red Jesus and Blue Mary – Part 1

Every week as I drive to and from church, I see Red Jesus and Blue Mary.  Some days they whisper words of love and faith on days when I am struggling.  Sometimes I am challenged by the faith of the family who honors the Savior and Mother Mary and how they understand you can’t have […]

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Jesus, Pilate, and the Crowd

Matthew 27:1-31 27 When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death.  They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor. 3 When Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty […]

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Caiaphas, Peter’s Denial, and Imprisonment

Matthew 26:57-75 57 Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas the high priest, in whose house the scribes and the elders had gathered.  But Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest; and going inside, he sat with the guards in order to see how this would […]

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Peter, Prayer, Betrayal, and Arrest

Matthew 26:31-56 Then Jesus said to them, “You will all become deserters because of me this night; for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd,     and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ 32 But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”  Peter said to him, “Though all become […]

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Plotting, Perfume, and the Passover

Yesterday was Palm Sunday and we joyously entered the sanctuary waving palm branches while singing “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna.”  We have begun our journey through Holy Week and Christ’s last days.  I invite you to join me throughout this week read the scriptures and reflect upon this journey in the days ahead. Matthew 26:1-30 When Jesus […]

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