(April 20, 2020) Jonah 2:9a “But I, with a song of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you.” Read: Jonah 2 Yesterday, as I was finishing this week of study leave, my family and I were watching one of the Sunday School classes videos. The lesson was on [...]
(April 13, 2020) Ephesians 1:1-2 “1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Read: Ephesians 1-2 It was customary in the ancient Greco-Roman world to begin a letter [...]
(April 10, 2020, Good Friday) Mark 10:32-45 “[The chief priests and teachers of the law] will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.” Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, [...]
(April 9, 2020) John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” The one time that Jesus calls something “new” in John’s Gospel – is right here. A “new command” I give you: as I have loved you, so you must love [...]
(April 8, 2020) Mark 14:3 “…as [Jesus] was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.” Read: Mark 14:1-11 On Wednesday of the first Holy Week, two key events took place: (1) Judas agreed to [...]
(April 7, 2020) Luke 22:44 “And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.” Read: Luke 22:39-46 From the beginning, we protestants have emphasized theology. The Reformers wanted to teach the Gospel “rightly.” There is much to be commended in this, yet we do well [...]
(April 6, 2020) Mark 11:15-17 “And they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons, and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the Temple. And he [...]
(April 3, 2020) Exodus 16:15 “When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, ‘What is it?’ For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, ‘It is the bread the Lord have given you to eat’.” Read: Exodus 16 After the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt and through the [...]
(April 2, 2020) Genesis 1:5 “God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.” God spoke, and things came into being out of nothing. “Let there be light.” And there was light. “Let there be sky.” And it was so. This happened again [...]
(April 1, 2020) Colossians 4:6 “Let your conversations be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” Yesterday’s guidelines by our government officials have once again added new restrictions, and have extended the state of things through April. It seems the virus may peak in our area closer [...]
