Tag: Lent
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Introduction
Thank you for considering joining me on this series of thoughts through Lent. In planning it and putting it together I’ve spent more time than I normally would looking at the Bible. I guess that’s reason enough for me to produce this series, but I confess it’s both humbling to think that others are reading…
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Lent 2020 – Day 40
Luke 23:56 Then [after seeing Jesus’s body placed in the tomb] they [the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee] went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment. Waiting! Suddenly, but not for the first time, women take centre stage in Luke’s narrative. I…
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Lent 2020 – Day 38
Luke 22:28 You are those who have stood by me in my trials. There are so many things that one could reflect on from the Last Supper: Jesus’s institution of the Lord’s supper, his treatment of Judas, his washing the disciples’ feet, his reference to conferring a Kingdom on them, his prayers for Simon Peter. …
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Lent 2020 – Day 37
Luke 20:1b-3 … the chief priests and the teachers of the law together with the elders came up to him. “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things,” they said. “Who gave you this authority?” He replied, “I will ask you a question. Tell me, John’s baptism – was it from heaven or…
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Lent 2020 – Day 36
Luke 20:47 Every day he [Jesus] was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him. Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words. If I knew I were going…
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Lent 2020 – Day 35
Luke 19:37b-40 …the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen. “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your…
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Lent 2020 – Day 34
Luke 11:53-54 When Jesus left there, the Pharisees and teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions, waiting to catch him in something he might say. After yesterday’s barrage against the Pharisees, one of the experts of the law eating with them replied to Jesus, “Teacher, you insult…
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Lent 2020 – Day 33
Luke 11:37-38 When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. But the Pharisee, noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal, was surprised. Curiously topical … almost! At this time when hand-washing is our first line of defence against…
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Lent 2020 – Day 32
Luke 14:1-4 One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. There in front of him was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus asked the Pharisee and experts of the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” But they remained silent.…
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Lent 2020 – Day 31
Luke 7:39 When the Pharisee [Simon] who had invited him [Jesus, to dinner] saw this [the woman anointing Jesus’s feet], he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is – that she is a sinner.” Jesus certainly engaged with the…
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