Bad Friday
I saw this Twitter post today (@keetpotato)
me: “we commmorate the day you died every year”
jesus: “thats nice, what’s the day called?”
me:
jesus:
me:
jesus: “keith?”
me: “bad friday”
This hypothetical awkward conversation illustrates the fact that Good Friday is an odd title for the day when the worst of evil was poured on upon the greatest Love.
We cannot “gloss it over”. The darkness and the pain that day were more real and extreme than we’ll ever know. It is important […]
Holy Week – Monday – A Strange Story
This event took place in the life of Jesus on Monday, the day after the Triumphal Entry (Palm Sunday).
Matthew 21
18 Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.
20 When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?” they asked.
21 Jesus […]