Category: Holy Week
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Holy Saturday
The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’ Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell…
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Good Friday
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. (Psalm 22:1-2) After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full…
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Maundy Thursday
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”[ In the same way also he took the cup,…
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Shut Up.
And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, “Have youno answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” But heremained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are youthe Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” And Jesus said, “I am, and you will…
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Wednesday Of Holy Week
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. (Hebrews 9:13-14) Assist us mercifully with thy help,…
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Tuesday Of Holy Week
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews…
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Monday Of Holy Week
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights;I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring…
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Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
“Jesus is coming! Look busy!” (Bumper sticker pinned to a church office bulletin board.) “When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” (Army Drill Sergeant, offering gallows humor about his first time under fire.) Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you…
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Palm Sunday
This week I will depart from my usual pattern of intentions and invite us to contemplate Christ’s saving work through Holy Week. May you be blessed to gaze upon the one who came into the world for you. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities;upon him was the chastisement that…