It’s Friday but Sunday’s Comin

I just discovered this powerful video reflection thanks to Sivin Kit

Also check out these posts for the Lenten synchroblog
Ryan Lind’s Short Story for Good Friday
And Bethany Stedman’s Prayers from the Cross 

More Good Friday Prayers

Jesus is on his way toward the Cross.  His disciples have fled and he is alone, alone with our suffering and our pain.  Alone to face the wrath of the Roman Empire and the fury of the crowd.  Alone and feeling abandoned by God.  Yet not alone for all of humanity walks with him.  We [...]

A Good Friday Prayer

 
Christ Jesus you hung upon a cross and died for us
So that we might live for you
Your body was broken and your blood shed
So that we might be healed and made whole
You were faithful unto death 
So that we might be faithful unto life
Your last command was that we might love one another
One family together from [...]

Maundy Thursday reflections

 
Today is Maundy Thursday the last day of Lent and the day on which we remember the Last Supper and particularly Jesus washing the disciples’ feet.  I was particularly impressed this morning by Beth Stedman’s reflections here in which she asks
How can I enter into Christ’s command to “love one another as I have loved [...]

Did Jesus Really Spend Three Days in the Tomb

 
Have you ever wondered why we talk about Jesus spending three days in the tomb when we actually believe that he died Friday evening and rose again on Sunday morning?  
Here is a great explanation by Ken Collins that I think is worth a look
The ancients counted days instead of calculating elapsed time—in fact, Jesus [...]

Why Do We Neglect Easter?

I am a little late with this post that gives a brief explanation of the season of Easter as it celebrated in the church calendar because I got diverted by the sunny day and the Mustard Seed House garden work day this morning.  I also know that Easter is still a long way off but [...]

Conspiring together

Here is the second of the morning prayers that Mark Pierson did for our conference The New Conspirators.  The emphasis is on multiculturalism and the call to part of a God’s beloved community.  It seemed an appropriate reflection for this season.

The Easter Vigil

“Don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Now [...]

Stations of the Cross

As part of their acts of devotion, early Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem retraced Jesus route as he carried his cross to his death. By the sixteenth century, this pilgrimage route through Jerusalem was called the Via Dolorosa, the Way of Sorrow. Along the Way, certain points on the journey (stations) were associated with [...]