Monthly Archive for April, 2006

Can You Handle the Truth?

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on April 20, 2006
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I am hearing that we need to be more honest about the Bible and less defensive. God does not need us to defend it or Him. I could die tomorrow and God will do just fine. In spite of the many ministries that appeal for money, imploring you to keep funding them, and all the while reminding you just how badly the world needs to keep them on the TV, radio, or whatever, God would never miss a beat without them. He doesn’t need our Christian apologetics. He needs our commitment to live the Kingdom.

Can you handle the truth?
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Lenten Season

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Ernie
on April 19, 2006
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SUNDAY # 8

New Beginnings! The number eight stands for new beginnings and I am R-E-A-D-Y! It’s been the best Lenten season ever for me. So many things are changed in me. Did I mention that no triple grande extra hot lattes from Starbucks and only one meal a day has side benefits? I went from 202 to 191. :-)

Ahh, but it’s Easter Sunday and there are bigger fish to fry. The tomb is EMPTY and most importantly everything has changed. The resurrection says so many things- all good!
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The Shadow

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on April 18, 2006
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SATURDAY # 7

And does anybody know? The Shadow do! I was five or six years old when my step dad would come home and before dinner we would sit around the radio and listen to The Shadow. He was the answer to everything. The Holy Spirit is now that Shadow.

Who knows what happened on Saturday?

The Holy Spirit only.
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Last Supper

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on April 17, 2006
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THURSDAY DAY # 5

In this passion week, things now speed up to their intended conclusion rapidly. This is the evening that Jesus meets in the upper room with His disciples and begins to share things that are incomprehensible to them: things we now understand looking back in time. Today is known in traditional communities as Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday. It’s also a new mandate as we see in John 13:34.

In this passion week, today marks the beginning of three solemn days, days of uncertainty. But, these three days are just precursors to glorious Sunday: a day of celebration and a time to say GOODBYE LENT!
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Shellshocking

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on April 17, 2006
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FRIDAY DAY # 6

Why Good Friday? In one sense it should be called Terrible Friday. We in the West call it Good Friday, but it has several names in other nations and cultures. I like the German characterization of “Sorrowful Friday”, or Gottes Freitag (God’s Friday).

The Gospel of Mark sanitizes it with a nuts-n-bolts, blow-by-blow narrative. Mark 15:1-21 covers the 6am to 9 am slot. Mark 15:22-32 covers the story from 9am til noon. One verse, Mark 15:33, covers the noon to 3pm time. Hey, Mark wasn’t a wordy kinda guy. And finally, Mark 15:34-41 takes us from 3pm-6pm. Bang! There you have it in a nutshell, but shellshocking it really is.
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Set Free Your Judgements

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on April 16, 2006
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WEDNESDAY DAY # 4

Jesus has now spent three days and three nights in Jerusalem and the plot is about to thicken. You’ve probably heard the expression that fish and friends begin to smell after three days. That phrase is about to apply to Jesus milling around Jerusalem as well. The Roman and religious leaders were growing tired of His challenges. Just how could they take Him out without inciting the crowds?

Enter Judas Iscariot!
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Jesus: The Son of God

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on April 16, 2006
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Easter Sunday, April 16, 2006 - Only God knows what Jesus’ awareness was about Himself. As I read the Scriptures, it appears to me that Jesus felt that He was the Jewish Messiah; however, I can’t find any evidence that He had the sense that He was the second person in the Trinity. On this side of the cross though, we know that He is the only begotten Son of God.

 
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A Day of Debating

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on April 15, 2006
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TUESDAY DAY # 3

Having gone after the RELIGIOUS crowd first on Monday, Jesus now turns to Imperial Rome; however, his actions against them cannot be so blatant and open, so he resorts to hidden messages: aphorisms, parables, proverbs, and questions were the tools of Jesus. And, this drives us nuts! Why couldn’t he have just answered questions instead of responding with more questions, ambiguous stories, and symbolic actions?

Why didn’t Jesus ever write- other than on the ground?
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The Temple Tantrum

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on April 14, 2006
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MONDAY DAY # 2

Jesus has now made his triumphant entry and so it’s time for what some call his second symbolic act, the “temple tantrum”. Everyone has an opinion and a view of Jesus Christ. Mine does not allow for an angry Christos. Turn over the tables, and symbolically close down the temple yes; however, there is so much that has been misunderstood in this Monday event.

Herod the Great built the Temple complex that made Jerusalem the wonder of the entire Roman empire. This most magnificant Temple complex had a center “Gentile Court” (can you say food court?) that measured 1,000 x 1,550 ft, or approx. 40 acres. There were shimmering pools, glittering fountains, massive columns that weighed more then 500 tons, marble, gold, and precious stones everywhere.
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Palm Sunday

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Ernie
on April 12, 2006
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As we head into the week that leads up to Easter, I am going to do a day-by-day commentary, posting some of the more important points that I see out of each day- as Jesus lived it, as it applies to us in April 2006.

We begin of course with Sunday……………PALM SUNDAY!
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