Days of Holy Week - Lent 2021

“Forgiven Traitors”

Luke 22:1:6 {Prayer}             Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Guy Fawkes, Robert Ford, Judas Iscariot … these four all have something in common with each other.  They are all traitors.             Marcus Junius Brutus, often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman senator who served under Julius Caesar.  He is best known from Shakespeare’s…

“In the Cross of Christ I Glory”

John 12:23-36 {Prayer}             We just sang these words:            “In the cross of Christ I glory,           Tow’ring o’er the wrecks of time.           All the light of sacred story           Gathers round its head sublime” (LW 101, “In the Cross of Christ I Glory”)                      In the cross of Christ I glory.  Really?  Just listen to this …            “Roman citizens…

“Not to Deceive”

Matthew 23:1-12 {Prayer}             Deception … to some, it’s a game, to others … well, whether they mean it to be or not … it’s a way of life.  Either way … it is something which every single one of us is good at.             During the Prohibition Era a California product was being sold…

“Who’s First”

Mark 12:28-34 {Prayer}             In high school but mainly in college, if I had to ride with someone and there was a group of us going, there was always a race to the car.  It didn’t matter if we were driving two blocks to the local convenient store or if we were going 20 minutes…

“Lifesaving Station”

Mark 11:15-19 {Prayer}             On a dangerous sea coast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little lifesaving station.  The building was just a little hut with only one boat and a few devoted members who kept a constant watch over the sea.  With no thought for themselves, they went out day and…