I want to take a week off from Habakkuk to reflect on today, Easter. I’ve been remembering my time celebrating it in Jerusalem three years ago. Days of Easter Past After a sunrise service on the Mount of Olives, we walked back to the city. Making our way down the hill, we wandered past the traditional location of the Garden of Gethsemane and decided to duck in for a few minutes. I’d been there many times before, but that day brought a different feeling to the place. Typically people visit to remember Jesus fervently praying that night before his arrest, […]
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Reclining
The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Friday evening we had a triclinium meal. A triclinium in the Greco-Roman world […]
Crucified
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 In a burial cave north of Jerusalem, an ossuary (bone box) was found which included the remains of a heel bone with an iron nail through it, indicating the deceased has been crucified. Crucifixion was a horrible way to die. The Romans perfected this torturous method of execution. While we look today for […]