That today is Passover has stayed on my mind quite powerfully all day and into the night. As I understand it, Passover began at Sunset April 8 and continues until sunset April 9. (I am not a scholar, so I will likely get some of the details of this wrong. Share grace with me.) I …
“Little girl, I say to you, rise up!” Perhaps I was dreaming the words because I have been preparing to teach about Jairus’ daughter in the “Jesus Said to Her” series for our Tuesday morning class. Perhaps, in the recesses of my mind, the words rang familiar as I began to wake but consciously wanted …
What must they have been thinking as the night fell marking the beginning of the Sabbath rest while the body of their Lord, beaten and lifeless, lay in a borrowed tomb? Surely, they talked about the Passover meal just some 30 hours past. How the words must have haunted them, “This is my body broken …
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