The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ The King of Israel!” 14 Then Jesus, when He had found a …
We don’t celebrate a bunny rabbit on Resurrection Sunday. After all he went through this Holy Week, we cannot minimize what our Savior did on this Holy day. He arose triumphant. He gained victory over death. He restored us to relationship with the Father.
We often overlook that Jesus was busy doing something between his death and resurrection. He wasn’t just lying in the tomb—his spirit never died; it just left his physical body.
And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. — Luke 22:44 NIV People usually sweat when their bodies overheat. It’s the body’s way of cooling itself. But people also sweat when under stress or pressure. Interestingly, emotional stress targets the sweat glands in …
Read Mathew 26:26-46, John 13:1-17 NIV While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” . . . dinner was taking place, when the devil had already put into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot that he should …
Follow Lenita’s Blog on WordPress.com “And they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. “But not during the festival [Passover],” they said,“ or there may be a riot among the people”” — Matthew 26:4, brackets added. Read Mathew 26:2-16 NIV Jesus celebrated Passover knowing he was already our eternal Passover lamb slain before the foundation of …
Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. 19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered. 20 When the disciples saw this, they were …
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” 14 The blind and the lame came …
