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Why We Call It Good Friday
Oh, what wondrous love is this — God made Man so that He could die for us and save us from our sins! NO GREATER LOVE! And this is why we call that dark and awful day — almost 2,000 years ago — “Good”. God made it good. He took what was horrific and brutal and unjust — and He transformed it into the possibility of new life for all of us. But there is one catch — we need to accept the grace of that Good Friday and allow it to change us. We need to turn from our sinful ways and begin again. Don’t let this day —…
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Donkeys, Lent, and Holy Week (Part 2)
Yesterday I shared a little bit about a prayer that I find myself praying on a regular basis. The prayer goes a little bit like, “Lord I’m an ass — but please let me be the ass that carries you into Jerusalem.” To understand where the inspiration for this prayer came from, read more about it here. But there is a part two to the story of the donkey. I have always been puzzled by that second donkey in the scripture, “Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.” Matt 21:5 KJV. I was always bewildered by the concept of…
