Luke 23:44-49 {Prayer} Have you ever noticed how when people tell you directions, they tend to either use landmarks or science? The landmark people are the ones who tell you what you “can’t miss.” “Just turn right after you cross the bridge, go down that road until you get to a grey electrical box…
Zechariah 12:10-14 {Prayer} “God is dead.” This is what a 19th century German philosopher by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche said. The expression, “God is dead,” is famously associated with Nietzsche’s book titled Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche used the phrase figuratively. Zechariah, however, used the phrase literally. God. Is. Dead. But really? That’s…
A GOOD FRIDAY TENEBRAE SERVICE INTRODUCTION: Good evening and welcome to what I hope and pray will be a very special and meaningful time of worship for all of us as we gather in God’s house on this Good Friday to recall and dare I say to celebrate the tragic events that took place nearly…
A GOOD FRIDAY TENEBRAE SERVICE APRIL 19, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Good evening, and welcome to what I hope and pray will be a very special time of worship for you as we gather in God’s house on this Good Friday evening to recall one of the saddest and yet most significant events that ever took place. …
A GOOD FRIDAY TENEBRAE SERVICE INTRODUCTION: Good evening, and welcome to a very special time of worship, a time that will find us focusing upon some of the key characters in the story of Christ’s Passion and the roles that they played that fateful Friday so long ago. As we examine these individuals and groups,…
GOOD FRIDAY TENEBRAE SERVICE INTRODUCTION: Good evening and welcome to our annual Good Friday Tenebrae Service – a service of shadows; a service of impending and increasing darkness. I’d like to begin our service this evening in a way that I don’t usually begin one of these services. I want to read a brief…
Good Friday Tenebrae Service INTRO.: Good evening and welcome to our annual Good Friday Tenebrae Service which is the most somber and solemn service of the year. Throughout the past 6 weeks in our mid-week Lenten services we have walked with Jesus as we have reflected upon the events of His Passion and some of…
Good evening and welcome to what I hope and pray will be a very special and meaningful time of worship for all of us as we gather together in God’s house on this Good Friday evening to commemorate and dare I say even celebrate the earth-shaking, sin-breaking, history-making events that took place nearly 2000 years…