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 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 | Feb 22, 2023 | Lent/Easter
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from...
by debracelovsky | Mar 12, 2022 | Lent/Easter
Do you believe that Christ was raised from the dead? Believe the same of yourself. Just as his death is yours, so also is his resurrection; if you have shared in the one, you shall share in the other. As of now the sin is done away with. John Chrysostom (345-407...
by debracelovsky | Apr 2, 2021 | Lent/Easter, Word
About 40 miles north of the Sea of Galilee, the lower slopes of 9,000 ft Mt. Hermon begin to rise into the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. A small group of men are climbing one of the lower slopes and, as they approach its crest, they will stop, rest awhile, and then...
