My friend and I got it in our heads to rise before dawn and hike a hill to meet the sun on Easter morning.
Tag: holy week
“At noon, darkness fell on the whole land until three o’clock.” (Matthew 27:45 NLT) The last few days have been quite dark. In forty years of holy weeks, I’ve never waded through one as stormy as this. It started at sunset as Passover began —…
As a pastor, I am well aware of the pressure to perform amidst passion week. Busy is the badge of the good minister, isn’t it? And where exactly in scripture can we cite this example? What in life is ever made better by rushing? Ann Voskamp’s words come to mind, how hurry makes amateurs of us all.
to think of Easter crowds and choruses: “He is risen!” How easy it is to worship with the throng on Sunday; especially the high church holidays like Easter and Christmas. How much harder is it to walk the road of repentance toward confession and restoration in a remote location?
Cross-bearing is not a golden icon worn daintily about our neck as we go about our own affairs. Cross-bearing is being seized by the love of God and pressed into service.