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Walking through Holy Week
The high point of the church calendar is this week. All of it. Not just Easter Sunday. Let us walk with intentionality and not rush to resurrection. God handled death. Don’t be afraid to remember and draw near. This is the way of the cross.
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Holy Week Reminder
A tweet from Ben Cramer (who I don’t know but this is really good): We want the war horseJesus rides a donkey.
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Holy Week
We are about to enter Holy Week in the Church. This marks the most powerful week to commemorate in the life of the Church. It is time to follow him into the hardest places to find the deepest power. It it time to sit with him as he looks over the city of Jerusalem and weeps. He know what he…
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Holy Saturday
O Lord, why do you cast my soul away?Why do you hide your face from me? (Psalm 88:14)
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The day the revolution began
I wrote some thoughts on this Good Friday about why I stay in faith. I needed to reflect on all of this in a time when it’s truly a temptation to “walk away.” Why do I stay? I didn’t want to wreck the format of copying and pasting, which often gets messed up, so I will just LINK HERE if…
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The goodness of this Friday
Almighty God, we beseech you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the Cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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The beauty of Maundy Thursday
Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for…
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Maundy Thursday prayers
Almighty Father, whose most dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it in thankful remembrance of Jesus Christ our Savior, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, on God,…
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Holy Saturday
Lamentations 3:37-58 37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? 39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
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Good Friday
Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Category: Holy Week
