Tonight Lord Jesus Christ you sat at supper with your friends. It was a simple meal that final one of lamb unleavened bread and wine. Afterward you went out to die. How many other meals you shared beside the lake fried fish and toasted bread at Simon’s banquet hall a feast at Lazarus’ home in…
Month: March 2018
“A Ballad of Trees and The Master,” by Sidney Lanier
Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, for spent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to him; The little gray leaves were kind to him; The thorn-tree had a mind to him When into the woods he came. Out of the woods…
Untied (Luke 19:28-35)
After telling this story, Jesus went on toward Jerusalem, walking ahead of his disciples. As he came to the towns of Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples ahead. “Go into that village over there,” he told them. “As you enter it, you will see a young donkey tied there…
Out of the Ashes
After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has. So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for…
Out of the Whirlwind
Affixed atop my county courthouse is a statue of Lady Justice. She presides over those who enter each day, reminding them of two important things. There are the balance scales which symbolize fairness and equity, promising that all judgments will be based on the evidence. Then there is the blindfold, suggesting that justice is impartial….
Searching for Wisdom (part 2)
God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells, for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters, when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm, then…
Searching for Wisdom (Job 28:1-28)
In the middle of Job we find the wisdom chapter, Job 28. It serves as an intermission between Job’s dialogues with his three friends and his debates with a fourth friend named Elihu. In this chapter you will find Job searching for some sensibility as he evaluates his suffering. He cannot grasp why his calamity…
Job’s Complaint (Job 3:1-26)
1 At last Job spoke, and he cursed the day of his birth. 2 He said: 3 “Let the day of my birth be erased, and the night I was conceived. 4 Let that day be turned to darkness. Let it be lost even to God on high, and let no light shine on it….