Matthew's Passion: Humiliations 40 Blogs of Lent: 32 Matthew 27:27-31 Jesus has been arrested, tried convicted and sentenced, other than the actual execution, could anything be worse? The answer to that is yes. There are lots of things that could be worse. There is an English proverb that says, "Sticks and stones may break my …
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Matthew’s Passion: The anointing
Matthew's Passion: The anointing 40 Blogs of Lent: 13 Matthew 26:6-13 This is one of those intriguing passages of the Bible that the four Evangelists treat differently. Matthew and Mark do not name the woman and have Jesus' head anointed in Bethany at the house of Simon the Leper. Luke does not name the woman …
Rachel weeping for her children
A blog for Holy Innocents Day The Nativity by Matthew - Part 6 The Nativity of Jesus is not easy to read. We celebrate God becoming human, and rightly so, and I hope what now three days after Christmas days that you are no longer feeling the after-effects of overeating or overdrinking. But it is …
…or thorns compose so rich a crown
...or thorns compose so rich a crown A kine from Isaac Watts hymn When I survey the wonderous cross. A crown of thorns would have been very painful. But this was mot about pain or torture, this was mockery. And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they …
Making an ass of myself 