Up and under. Up to Jesus’ cross. And under our own. As we continue the Lenten journey, we consider the cross bearing that we share with Christ and that he shares with us: The cross always brings rejection, and to our astonishment, that rejection has glory hidden in it.
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Our Lenten journey this year begins with the Lenten journey of Jesus and his disciples as it was so many years ago. We hear Jesus’ call to go with him up to Jerusalem and to the cross in Luke 18:31-34:
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A 17-year-old author named Pliny the Younger watched, as a firsthand witness, as Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, burying the city of Pompei. He wrote about the event and said that a dense cloud shot up like a pine tree and the ash of eruption spread out in the air like the branches of a tree.
There was a commercial a few years ago which took place in a baseball dugout. The team, made up of community adults were watching their at-bat play out.
Really? God can do immeasurably more than all I can ask or imagine?
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Do you have a favorite hymn? During Grandparents Day here at the school that question was asked and there were so many answers we could have had a second Grandparents Day just to sing through all the many favorite hymns.
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Six weeks. Six weeks say the experts of working out and you will at that point see physical “gains.”
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For those of you parents or grandparents (or Godparents) of our school children, you know the scene well: somewhere around 7:45-8am on each school day as you approach the school doors pastor or one of the teachers are there to greet you every morning and give each child the Eastside welcome of a fist-bump.
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