Tag: Resurrection
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Lose Your Father Lose Your Son Lose Yourself
Maundy Thursday, washing feet and sharing a meal. This is what Jesus does the day before he goes to die. Before he goes to a garden to pray to ask His Father if there is another way. Good Friday, the crucifixion. He goes to the cross and cries out “My God, My God Why have…
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Wholly Weak: There’s Room for Suffering and Celebration
This year Easter feels weird to me. I don’t know if it’s because last year Easter was 3 weeks earlier or what, but it just feels like it literally came a little late. Like I’m catching up to it. It’s also odd that there is a fair and rodeo this weekend near Charleston and Wrestlemania…
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A Louder Morning
“There was an open tomb, evidence of light, a resurrected savior, thought to be a gardener, a foot race and a folded cloth. Could this be the start of a new covenant? Then His appearing to a few, then to us all. Bright but visible, so very like Himself, reassuring us, breathing on us, feeding…
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A Silenter Night
“We have lost Him. On Him who we hung our very hope, our everything. We forsook all to follow and we were not able to keep Him alive, to keep Him here, to establish an eternal Kingdom. One of us betrayed Him, one of us denied Him, we all ran away. And when some of…
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Mary
It’s hard to imagine the heart failing of someone who loved me so well. Maybe she was finally convinced we’d be okay without her. Maybe her body was just finished; certainly not her mind. Maybe it was just time. I think I’ve learned you can prepare to make an end of living, but not death, for…
The Reconstructed 