Posts from March 2024
Truly This Man Was the Son of God
The sun has now set for good this Friday. Strangest thing happened earlier this afternoon: complete darkness for about three hours, then light again for a while before sunset. In all my years there’s never been a day quite like this one. Three men crucified together—that’s not unique. Neither was the soldiers’ disparaging and brutality of the condemned—I’ve come to expect…
Palm Sunday
In the opening pages of his gospel, Matthew informs us that the King entered our world as an infant. Matthew contrasts Him with that very small man who called himself Herod the Great. Remember the despot who was so threatened by what the magi said that he slaughtered all the babies in and around Bethlehem? Fast-forward from His infancy to the triumphal entry into…
