The Good Friday narrative is not easy reading. Betrayed.Bound.Abandoned.Interrogated.Flogged.Humiliated.Whipped.Stripped.Beaten.Burdened. Crucified. It is tempting to rush past it. To move quickly to what comes next. But this is where the story lingers. Jesus suffers. And he stays. Not untouched. Not distant. Not shielded from it. He feels it. All of it.The physical pain.The emotional weight.The humiliation.TheContinue reading “Lent 2026: He suffers. He stays.”
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Lent 2025: “I Thirst”
Today, for a Good Friday service, we were exploring the last seven sayings of Jesus from the cross. I was assigned the fifth saying, “I thirst,” and asked to speak for five minutes on it. At first, I wondered how on earth I was going to talk for five minutes about just two words. ButContinue reading “Lent 2025: “I Thirst””
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