Passion Week Meditations: Palm Sunday

Passion Week is upon us. For Christians, it culminates in the most sacred events on our calendar: Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. However, as Jesus entered the Holy City of Jerusalem for the last time (until His soon return!), it initiated what we call Passion Week. The Old Testament prophesied of One to come who …

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The Clash of Holy Days

We're about to hit the holy trifecta! Of course, I say that tongue-in-cheek, meaning no disrespect to the most meaningful holy days of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Each historically holds to a different calendar (lunar for Jews and Muslims, Gregorian for most Christians) to mark holidays, and there are different ways …

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The God of New Beginnings

God is the Creator and Appointer of time! Nothing slips by Him and nothing is a surprise. Two days ago we discovered that God Himself declared New Year's Day...and it isn't January 1! Nor is it Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish civil new year. New Year's Day, according to Exodus 12, was two days ago! Then, …

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God’s Design of Time

Welcome back friends! This is the second of three short takes on God's appointed time. Yesterday, we asked, Do You Know What Day it Is? We considered what God ordained as the first day of the first month, and we discovered it was yesterday! We also looked at how days and months were named. You …

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