by Laura Naiser | Mar 22, 2016 | God's Character and Kingdom, Holy Week, Relating With God and Other People
Holy Week invites us to deeply reflect on the cross and resurrection. However, the pain of the cross tempts me to skip right to Sunday morning and run with John to the empty tomb. Yet, if I will make myself stand with him at the foot of the cross I know the...
by Laura Naiser | Feb 9, 2016 | God's Character and Kingdom, Holy Week
This past Sunday in worship we sang one of my favorite songs, The Wonderful Cross. This is a modern adaptation of the hymn written by Isaac Watts in 1707. A couple days prior, my pastor and I had been talking about the importance of seeing in the cross both our need...
by Laura Naiser | Apr 1, 2015 | God's Character and Kingdom, Holy Week, Impacting Our World, Relating With God and Other People, Uncategorized
Here in Texas, you do NOT want someone to say you are “all hat and no cattle.” In the same way, those of us who profess to follow Christ never want him to declare we are all leaves and no figs! Earlier this week, as I read the Gospel accounts of Holy Week, the...
by Laura Naiser | Apr 20, 2014 | God's Character and Kingdom, Holy Week, Impacting Our World, Inspiration, Relating With God and Other People
During the forty days between his resurrection and ascension, Jesus appeared to his disciples and prepared them to spread the good news in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (see Acts 1:8). In this brief period of time, the...
by Laura Naiser | Apr 13, 2014 | God's Character and Kingdom, Holy Week, Relating With God and Other People
Can you imagine what it must have been like to be among the crowds shouting praise and adoration to Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday? Though the Passover pilgrims made this processional and recited the words of Psalm 118 each year, this year was...
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