Second Timothy 3:1-17 seems like an odd passage for Good Friday. The cross is not mentioned at all. Jesus is only mentioned twice and almost in passing. The focus is on last days spiritual conditions and the call to faithfulness to the word of God. So, why choose this text for this day? This text does...
Maundy Thursday marks the day before Christ is crucified. It is the night Jesus institutes the "Lord's Supper" and sets an example for His disciples when he washes their feet. The name, "Maundy Thursday," comes from a corrupted form of a Latin word from which we get our English word "mandate." You could say this...
John, in his inspired effort to derail false teachers and prevent his congregation from following them into the worship of idols (as if Christ were somehow insufficient for their faith and life), consistently holds Christ up to their examination and requires them to consider what spiritual condition they have already achieved and is already true...
This meditation comes from the memorial service for a federal law enforcement officer in our community: If there remains one passage from the Christian scriptures, the Bible, that is still widely recognized in our day, it is probably this passage from the book of Psalms: Psalm 23. The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. He...