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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007Part 2 of series: Handel’s Messiah and Easter
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In my last post I explained why Handel’s Messiah, a piece we ordinary associate with Christmas, is really an oratorio for Easter. Today I want to examine the libretto (the words of the composition) to show the strong Easter […]
An Unexpected Easter Masterpiece
Monday, April 16th, 2007Part 1 of series: Handel’s Messiah and Easter
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I ended my last post by promising to discuss one further piece of Easter music. Today I begin to keep my promise.
Recently the choir of my church, along with a couple of guest choirs, did something you might consider […]
Sunday Inspiration from Pray the Gospels
Sunday, April 15th, 2007Excerpt from John 21:1-25
But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. (John 21:25)
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Prayer
Dear Lord, how can anything contain Your works? Not only are […]
Blogging Week in Review: April 9-13
Saturday, April 14th, 2007Permalink for this post
My Blogging
Monday: Is Easter a Ghost Story?
Tuesday: Redesigned Website
Wednesday: What is Easertide?
Thursday: Eastertide: Fifty Days?
Friday: Fifty Days of Easter: Some Suggestions
Links
How a Christian Publisher Deals with Racism: Zondervan faces up to having recently published some racist materials. (HT: Scot McKnight)
N.T. Wright on the Necessity of the Resurrection: The world’s […]
Fifty Days of Easter: Some Suggestions
Friday, April 13th, 2007Permalink for this post / Permalink for series - Easter: More Than Just a Day
Note: This is an improved version of a post I wrote a couple of years ago.
In my last post I began to answer the question of what we might do if we were to celebrate Easter for fifty days. I explained […]
Eastertide: Fifty Days?
Thursday, April 12th, 2007Permalink for this post / Permalink for series - Easter: More Than Just a Day
Note: This is an improved version of a post I wrote a couple of years ago.
In my last post I shared my personal discovery of Eastertide, the fifty-day season of the Christian year set apart to celebrate that resurrection of Christ […]
What is Eastertide?
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Permalink for this post / Permalink for series - Easter: More Than Just a Day
Note: This is an improved version of a post I wrote a couple of years ago.
As a child, I liked Easter. Dressing up in new clothes for church, singing joyful songs in worship, going to my grandparents’ house for an […]
Redesigned Website
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007Permalink for this post
Today I’m launching my redesigned website. My hope is to make this site even friendlier and more functional for my readers (and bit friendlier for me too).
Improvements: I’ve integrated WordPress software into my main site, which allows for the following improvements:
• a clickable list of recent posts in the right sidebar
• a […]
Is Easter a Ghost Story?
Monday, April 9th, 2007The first part of an Easter sermon called “Ghost Story”
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I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with ghost stories. As a boy, a part of me wanted to hear about ghosts and monsters and the like just to prove how tough I was. Another part of me wanted to dive under the covers […]
The Fourteenth Station: Jesus is Placed in the Tomb
Monday, April 9th, 2007Part 14 of series: The Stations of the Cross: A Devotional Guide for Lent and Holy Week
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Luke 23:50-54; Mark 16:1-4
Luke 23:50 Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph, who, though a member of the council, 51 had not agreed to their plan […]
The Thirteenth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series
Part 13 of the series: The Stations of the Cross for Lent and Holy Week
Luke 23:44-47
44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of […]
The Twelfth Station: Jesus on the Cross, His Mother, and His Disciple
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Part 12 of series: The Stations of the Cross for Lent and Holy Week
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John 19:25-27
25 Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple […]
The Eleventh Station: Jesus Promises His Kingdom to the Good Thief
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Part 11 of the series: The Stations of the Cross for Lent and Holy Week
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Luke 23:39-43
39 One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, “Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, […]
The Tenth Station: Jesus is Crucified
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Part 10 of series: The Stations of the Cross for Lent and Holy Week
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Luke 23:33-4, 47
23:33 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, “Father, […]
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