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...
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...
