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Everyone who has children should consider taking their children on Good Friday to the service for Stations of the Cross.  I did last year and found it VERY educational for my children.  I think it drove home the true pain of that day. 

I think we (especially parents) tend to skip over the trial and crucifixion of Jesus and go straight for the resurrection.  This practice diminishes the true sacrifice.  My children were 7 & 9 at the time but they were old enough to start…

Jesus finishes his time of agonizing prayer, and returns to his men, barely in time for his friend, Judas, to step forward and kiss him . . . ensuring those who had come to arrest him, that he was indeed The Man.  Luke continues with the events of that night:

The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking him and beating him. They blindfolded him and demanded, "Prophesy! Who hit you?" And they said many other insulting things to him. At daybreak the council of the elders of the people,…

Recently I was asked by the president of CIA(Christians In Action) at a high school here in North Carolina to preach to the club. She came to my church and heard me preach and she told the club that I would be speaking at this huge event at her school.

She told me that they are expecting a lot of students, so the nerves are beginning to kick in. The event is titled "Rock at the Pole". Jesus is the rock and we will be gathered around the flagpole. If the weather is bad we will…

“For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:” (Exodus 34:14)

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24)

“No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the…

And so Jesus departs from the Upper Room . . . and begins the quiet march toward his arrest.  He returns again this night to the Mount of Olives, and stops in the garden that we hold so dear, the Garden of Gethsemane, where he prayed to his Father, about the agony that was soon to come upon him. . .  Luke 22.39-46 -  www.biblegateway.com

Good Morning~ 

Let's think for a moment about what it must have been…

INTERCESSION

AN INTERCESSOR IS SOMEONE WHO PLEADS ON BEHALF OF OTHERS!

AN INTERCESSOR MUST BE A LOVER OF GOD AND HIS WORD!

AN INTERCESSOR SHOULD KNOW GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST!

GOD LOOKS FOR INTERCESSORS TO STAND IN THE GAP OF GOD’S WRATH AND PLEAD FOR MERCY BEHALF OF OTHERS.

Today’s understanding of the word is a group of people who pray, whereas God has commanded all believers to come boldly before His Throne of Grace and get His help and also to pray for…

Irony that hurts

Isn't it ironic. . .

An old man turned ninety-eight

He won the lottery and died the next day

It's a black fly in your Chardonnay

It's a death row pardon two minutes too late

And isn't it ironic?

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought... that this tune would have run through my head as I…

The Lord is telling us in his that his grace is sufficient for us,the question is what happen to Paul ?what makes him boast about his suffering? 2 corinthian:12. he was given a thorn  in his fresh to torment him, he was in pain ,in great suffering ,he ask the Lord to take that suffering away ,a he was told :my grace is sufficient for you ,for my power is made perfec in weakness.

I dont know about us today ,are we taking suffering ,rejection,pain ,misery ,humiliation,greive and so on…

Good Morning~

At sundown of that same day, thirteen men met to celebrate the Passover in a great gray hall, an upper room in a house on Mount Zion, the northeast corner of the height of Jerusalem. In the tall-roofed chamber with heavy beams holding up the ceiling, the only furnishings were rattan divans and a long oaken table, on which tall candles were burning. The flickering flames played upon the sturdy figures of the Apostles, and repeated them in distorted shadows against the…

Some donkeys were in the field nearby Jerusalem. One donkey said;
"I don't understand it, just yesterday everyone was throwing their clothes and palms on the road
when I was carrying Jesus on my back but now I am back to being a nothing. Those people don't even
see its me who was carrying Jesus."
Another donkey said:

"It works like that my brother; without Jesus you are nothing in this world"

Let us shift our focus from Rome back to Jerusalem and cast our gaze toward the Upper Room.  It is Passover time, so the city is teeming with people.  All Jewish males over the age of 12 were required to go there for the festival, which was followed by a seven-day celebration called the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For these festivals, Jews from all over the Roman Empire would converge on Jerusalem to celebrate the most important events in their history. You will remember that the Passover…

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Today is cloudy. I have struggled so long with journaling. The cloudy day sort of reflects how I feel about a journal. For over five years I have struggled with health issues. I used to run. Sometimes 5 or 10 miles. I used to lift weights and do aerobic excercise classes. I was a picture of health I guess. However, that would all end and actually that was just the beginning.

I suffered a "mini-stroke" or a TIA one weekend while at home. From that point on my health…

I asked you the other day whether or not you believe that you are chosen by God.  God chose you and me to love him and enjoy his love forever.

I hope that the word “chosen” speaks to you.  As children of God, we are God’s chosen ones.  Chosen means you are wanted, your company is sought after—I like that.  When I know that I am chosen, I know that I have been seen as a special person.  Someone has noticed me in my uniqueness and has expressed a desire to know me, to come closer to me,…