Good Friday 2024
From Gethsemane, to Jesus’ trial, the cross, and ending with His death, we remember all that Jesus did on Good Friday. Join us on this journey of remembrance, reflection, and exaltation.
“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, […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
The Wisdom Of The Cross
My career in litigation didn’t exactly get off to a smooth start. I was barely a year out of law school when I faced my first trial. Literally. I was the junior associate (a.k.a. cannon fodder) on a trial team defending a local TV station in a libel lawsuit. It stemmed from a story they […]
