“It Is Finished!”
Because of modern medicine, we’ve lost the opportunity to hear the last words of dying people. Most who are about to slip into eternity are drugged to make them comfortable. The only problem is this also puts them in a coma-like state, thereby prohibiting them from speaking to us. We are left wondering if they are hearing us, […]
“Why Have You Forsaken Me?”
High noon. It’s the time in the classic western by the same name when a brave sheriff, played by Gary Cooper, single-handedly took on a ruthless gang of evil men to save a once peaceful town from their criminal influence. High noon. It’s the time when 2,000 years ago, another man of courage and principle took on the […]
“Woman, Behold Your Son…”
As I think about our Lord’s final statements from the cross, my soul can readily identify with the words from Stuart Hine’s magnificent old hymn How Great Thou Art. And when I think that God, His Son not sparing, sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in; that on the cross, my burden gladly […]
“Today You Shall Be With Me In Paradise…”
In 2017, one of my cousins finally succumbed to the disease which ate away at his body. His name? Jimmy Bowers. He was the son of the oldest of my father’s sisters, Beatrice, so he was always considerably older than the rest of the cousins. So, when I was a kid, he was a young […]
“Father Forgive Them…”
Final words. They have a way of sticking with you for a lifetime. The year was 1981. The month was a cold, foggy January day in Stockton. I was a twenty-two-year-old newlywed working for a landscape company as I awaited acceptance at Dallas Theological Seminary. The call from my father in San Diego caught me […]
