by debracelovsky | Apr 8, 2024 | Dads, Family Life, Moms
I’m not sure I want to bring any more children into a world like this. You may have heard these words—or even said them. I have traveled several times to Israel and, within hours of landing at Tel Aviv Airport, we always travel south to a kibbutz near the...
by debracelovsky | Mar 31, 2024 | Lent/Easter
Read Matthew 28:1-10 This blessed day dawns. When you read the gospel accounts of resurrection morning, there was a great deal of traffic back and forth to the tomb. The women, the disciples. Confusion, disbelief. I particularly enjoy reading where the women first...
by debracelovsky | Mar 30, 2024 | Lent/Easter
Read Matthew 27:62-66 I imagine it as a day of unearthly calm. Between the horror and terror of Friday, and the inexpressible joy of Sunday morning, there is a day. I take the liberty of speculating: the bodies have been removed, the crosses stand empty, and Saturday...
by debracelovsky | Mar 29, 2024 | Lent/Easter
The Gospel of John, Chapter 19 Following is from John Bunyan’s classic, Pilgrim’s Progress: Now I saw in my dream that the highway which Christian was to go was fenced on either side with a wall called Salvation (Isaiah 26:1). Up this way therefore did...
by debracelovsky | Mar 28, 2024 | Lent/Easter
Read The Gospel of John 13–17; and 18 These first five chapters are, in my opinion, among the most beautiful in scripture. From the moment Jesus enters the Passover room until he hears the approach of the mob in the Garden, love overshadows every word. Before Jesus...
