Tag Archives: Crucifixion

In the Face of False Accusation

It’s bound to hap­pen. Some­one, some­day is going to falsely accuse you of some­thing. No doubt it has already hap­pened; prob­a­bly more than once. One of the chal­lenges that Chris­tians face is how to react in such a cir­cum­stance; when we are being ver­bally attacked, accused, or just straight up put-down. The nat­ural reac­tion is

Eyes to See The Risen Lord

The scene of the cru­ci­fix­ion of Jesus stands as the pre­em­i­nent pic­ture in the Chris­t­ian land­scape. When you think about that event what image does it bring up in your mind? What do you see? Depend­ing on your reli­gious tra­di­tion you may see Jesus on a sim­ple stake, a

Gethsemene

Last night I was read­ing over the dif­fer­ent accounts of the last hours of Jesus’ life on Earth. I was par­tic­u­larly moved by the account of what tran­spired in the gar­den of Geth­se­mane. The men­tal image of Jesus I car­ried in past is him at his strongest — the power that he dis­played