It Is Finished

March 31, 2024
“[W]hen the sabbath was over” (16:1), the women bought what they needed to finish the unfinished burial rites.  They couldn’t finish!  The law made them unable to finish.  The traditional…
Have you ever been put in jail?  Wait—don’t answer!  Well, if you have, I guess you know the awful feeling that comes with that clank as the barred door locks. …

Witnesses to the World

April 16, 2023
The world seemed awfully vast and rather hostile to those eleven men on their way to Galilee.  What did Jesus want to say to them there?  What did he want…

Go and See

April 9, 2023
“After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb” (28:1).  They walk to the tomb as…

The Sin Not the Sign

November 14, 2021
The Temple, Herod’s Temple, was built to make an impression.  When architects build to impress, they think about how best to do that.  Size is one factor, the scale.  The…
          God’s love is “one another” love.  This makes perfect sense, for God is one God in three Persons, blessed Trinity.  John was writing in a situation where people in…

Testify to the Redeemer

March 14, 2021
          We know we’re supposed to give thanks with a grateful heart, but sometimes we feel as if we’re just going through the motions of thankfulness, like other things we…