How much more shall the blood of Christ… purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. [Hebrews 9:11-15] Lent is a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with Jesus. On that journey, in the last few weeks, we have had these confrontations with demons – first Jesus himself, with his temptations by Satan in the wilderness, and showing us in these core responses to the devil in his fast, how we can see through the…
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.[1] Anthony Bloom was a doctor who later became a bishop. He was born to a Russian family just before outbreak of WWI. After the Russian Revolution, they had to flee Iran, and eventually settled in Paris, part of a significant Russian…
“Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” So they picked up stones to throw at him. We are journeying with Jesus during Lent towards Jerusalem. It will end in the death of Jesus on the Cross. This morning there is a kind of sharpening of our focus on the results of that journey – a confrontation between the Truth and the lies Jesus has come to cut through. But also, some…
How much more shall the blood of Christ… purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. We are journeying with Jesus during Lent towards Jerusalem. This morning there is a kind of sharpening of our focus on the results of that journey. We desire the Paschal feast – the celebration of Easter…but we must first go with him to the Cross. ———— This past week, if you’ve been following the daily readings,…