AN UNLIKELY EASTER STORY - Lent 5#
Martin Luther said about the book of Esther, ‘I am so hostile to it that I wish it did not exist’.
Martin Luther said about the book of Esther, ‘I am so hostile to it that I wish it did not exist’.
Our streets boil over with hate, crime, anger and sheer hopelessness. (Franklin Graham) Ever more the world wearies. Weariness thrusts the human soul forward into temptation.
It’s been called ‘the Fifth Gospel’. Psalm 22 is unparalleled amongst the psalms in its prophetic portrayal of the suffering of the Lord Jesus on the cross.
"We can become so familiar with the story of the cross that we forget its foolishness. # But, first consider Gideon.
It seems, whatever the religion, there is some kind of ‘getting clean’ ritual.
Why do all our highest ideals inevitably disappoint us? It happened to God first. Genesis 3 vividly describes the ‘fall of humanity’.
God's intentions are to eliminate yesterday and create a promised land superior to both Eden and Canaan. This is a vision of breathtaking scope.
Destiny forces all men to face a future that can never be known until it is met. Tomorrow is as insecure as yesterday is now past.
The face that a child wears is their own face.
How would you sum-up this year now past? An ending invites an assessment, a steady gaze over the shoulder.