by debracelovsky | Feb 16, 2026 | Into the Vineyard, Lent/Easter, Prayer
The vinedresser is never nearer the canes than when he is pruning them. David Jeremiah, writer Here in Wine Country, with harvest long past and having shed their leaves, the crazy-auntie-looking vines are being meticulously pruned. The shorn vines now go to...
by debracelovsky | Apr 18, 2025 | Lent/Easter
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...
by debracelovsky | Apr 7, 2025 | Lent/Easter
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,...
by debracelovsky | Mar 29, 2025 | Lent/Easter
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...
by debracelovsky | Mar 17, 2025 | Lent/Easter
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....
by debracelovsky | Mar 4, 2025 | Lent/Easter
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...
