A Good Friday Meditation

German theologian, Franz Delitzsch, wrote the following about Isaiah, Chapter 53: It is the most central, the deepest, and the loftiest thing that the Old Testament prophecy, outstripping itself, has ever achieved. I share this version here, as I find it beautifully...
Lent Four: A Woman Apprehends

Lent Four: A Woman Apprehends

Bethany They have been expecting him, anticipating his arrival for Passover. Martha has readied their home in her usual efficient way. And their friend, Simon, who had been miraculously healed of the dreaded leprosy by the Lord himself during a visit months earlier,...
Lent Three: On Blind Hope, and Mercy

Lent Three: On Blind Hope, and Mercy

While I breathe, I hope. Cicero Jesus has left Galilee for the last time in his earthly ministry. Two-thirds of his ministry has taken place in this region and its surroundings. He was raised in one of its many small towns, brought up in a loving family, learned the...
Lent Two: Doubt, Hope, and Blind Determination

Lent Two: Doubt, Hope, and Blind Determination

He sat on a stool in front of his low mud brick house in the cool air of early morning. Chickens chattered as they scratched in the dust of a neighbor’s yard, having been summoned before dawn by the flock’s loud and insistent rooster. A young goat bleated....
Lent One: Come Aside

Lent One: Come Aside

He said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest (Mark 6:31b NIV). Come to me . . . and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28 CSB). “We want,” quipped C.S. Lewis, in The Problem of Pain, “not so much a father in...