As you prepare to commemorate Good Friday, here is a classic Michael Spencer devotion from April, 2007 on “seeing the terrible cost of our salvation.” My mother had an unusual experience as a teenage girl. She was present at the last public hanging in the United States. She recalled that day in the mid-1930’s veryContinue reading “Classic iMonk: A Good Friday Meditation”
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Stations of the Cross: The Eleventh Station
A Series for Holy Week. Thanks to Jeff Dunn for leading us in these meditations. STATION ELEVEN Jesus is nailed to the cross Scripture Carrying the cross by himself, he went to the place called Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, Golgotha). There they nailed him to the cross. John 19: 17, 18 NLT
Music for Holy Week V—Holy Thursday
For your Holy Week meditations, by Chaplain Mike. “I Am the Bread of Life,” performed by John Michael Talbot.
Stations of the Cross: The Tenth Station
A Series for Holy Week. Thanks to Jeff Dunn for leading us in these meditations. STATION TEN Jesus is stripped Scripture And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Genesis 2: 25 NASB Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; andContinue reading “Stations of the Cross: The Tenth Station”
Stations of the Cross: The Ninth Station
A Series for Holy Week. Thanks to Jeff Dunn for leading us in these meditations. THE NINTH STATION Jesus falls the third time. Scripture My life is poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me. My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay.Continue reading “Stations of the Cross: The Ninth Station”
Music for Holy Week IV
For your Holy Week meditations, by Chaplain Mike. “The Power of the Cross,” performed by Keith and Kristyn Getty.
Stations of the Cross: The Eighth Station
A Series for Holy Week. Thanks to Lisa Dye for leading us in today’s meditation. THE EIGHTH STATION Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem. Scripture A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weepContinue reading “Stations of the Cross: The Eighth Station”
The Real Meaning of Easter?
By Chaplain Mike. According to Rick Warren, Easter is about “growing your church.” He exhorts pastors in a recent Christian Post article to “use Easter” to break growth barriers in their congregations. Easter, a means to an end. A prime marketing opportunity for the real business of evangelicalism: church growth.
Making Music in Midst of Chaos
By Chaplain Mike. Back in the early 1990’s a simple act of heroism caught the imagination of those who learned about it. On May 27, 1992, Vedran Smailovic, principal cellist for the city opera, was practicing his cello in an upstairs apartment in Sarajevo, in the former Yugoslavia. It was a time of war, andContinue reading “Making Music in Midst of Chaos”
Stations of the Cross: The Seventh Station
A Series for Holy Week. Thanks to Jeff Dunn for leading us in these meditations. THE SEVENTH STATION Jesus falls the second time. Scripture Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and youContinue reading “Stations of the Cross: The Seventh Station”
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