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You are in Gethsemane too...

8/7/2024

An already heaving Messiah weeps in Gethsemane. It is the last night before His crucifixion. You are in Gethsemane too, hidden but watching.

A Tale of 2 Gardens

21/6/2024

The Bible contains twin gardens that are notable in eternity. The first Adam 'lived' in one, and the second Adam 'died' in one.

5 Reasons why Jesus rose to heaven

5/4/2024

Can you believe this - Jesus' work was not completed at His resurrection? He warmly addresses His disciples just prior to His crucifixion that they will not be abandoned, but...

Restoration is real

4/4/2024

(Today's SoulSnack is sequential to Wednesday's Losing sight of Jesus. It is drawn from John 21:15-19. ) Christianity is 'hard work', at times 'mighty, mighty hard work'.

Losing sight of Jesus

3/4/2024

John's Gospel carries fresh insights the other three gospels do not contain. This is one.

Why Easter Day?

31/3/2024

It is utter nonsense that the dead can be raised. THE battle for belief is perennial. Likewise, Jesus' apostles joined hands in and with disbelief.

Why Good Friday?

28/3/2024

That first Good Friday silenced the Father. How broken was He? The Bible does not explain.

Why Gethsemane?

27/3/2024

Smelling the daisies, beholding the oaks or resting among the birds would not be for Jesus in this garden. Gethsemane is His gateway to decision.

Why Palm Sunday?

24/3/2024

Predictions and Old Testament prophecies echo, these are most familiar to the throng. Jesus parades before His people. A great crowd gathers for it is the Passover Feast.

CHRISTMAS = It is not death to die!

18/12/2023

God acts differently. Christians for 2000 years have known that preparation for Jesus begins in the heart. But, that first Christmas was different.

THE POWER OF SILENCE ~ A.B. SIMPSON

6/5/2023

But Jesus gave no reply, and Pilate was amazed.

Imagine the cost of fleeing Jesus...

15/4/2023

A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind. (Mark 14:51-52) It's dawn.

The Way of Blessing

9/4/2023

The stone across the tomb was a mere pebble to He who is the Rock of Ages.

The Most Revolutionary Image Of All Time!

6/4/2023

It is finished! (John 19:30) Jesus threw His final pain-filled cry into all time at 3pm.

No Compromise!

2/4/2023

The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, he is the man who holds a new spirit and a new heart - he is a new man...

The Pain of Grace & Mercy#

2/2/2023

I wanted to know so much more of this God who would pour His grace and mercy on me. You didn't deserve the wounds you have in your heart.

What price is freedom...?

1/11/2022

What price is freedom from sin? It is the 'same price' as our Lord paid. Freedom from sin is apprehended by self-crucifixion.

Can only a righteous man recognize righteousness?

19/8/2022

The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, "Surely this was a righteous man.

The Forge of Spiritual Discernment

26/4/2022

It is in the shattering of the common-place that a disciple grows. It is in the opening of unexpected paradigms a disciple ventures to higher ground.

One Nail at a Time#

17/4/2022

I remember watching events unfold on television on November 9, 1989 when the Berlin wall fell. This event reshaped the world.

THIS IS GOOD FRIDAY

14/4/2022

That first and only Good Friday was our heavenly Dad inviting us all to no longer pen treaties with sin.

The Place of the Skull

12/4/2022

At that first Easter The Place of the Skull became the altar to sacrifice God. An improbable messiah, Jesus the Christ stood before the raging the masses.

Torment's Great Enemy

12/4/2022

Betrayal will always fail to explain how much it charges. Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve.

The End You Live For...

7/4/2022

Your eyes gaze upwards, filling with tears that refuse restraint. It is very dark, not cold, but oh so dark. It shouldn't be, it is only mid-afternoon.

Completing the Cross!

5/4/2022

An unconscionable Pilate considered only self-protection. Herod the Tetrarch sought a messianic sideshow. The Jews blindly chose murder for their long awaited Messiah.

Why did darkness descend at the Crucifixion?

5/4/2022

Night goggles permit vision in darkness.

The Stake of the Stubborn!

27/3/2022

Jesus said, "Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.

Jesus' Never Went To A Gym!

26/10/2021

Hollow men make hollow judgements upon others. They only measure exteriors. Such men can do nought else. Jesus was reckoned in this way, even by His kinsmen.

3 Reasons why you can't contain God

13/6/2021

Mankind denies God, abuses God and even attempts to replace Him with a myriad of false gods - mere deceiving demons who are feeble pretenders to gain the worship that...

Was Jesus angry or disappointed?

10/6/2021

Returning the third time, Jesus said to them, 'are you still sleeping and resting? Enough. . . the son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

After the Cross

6/4/2021

Old habits die hard. The road of return is easy. Peter was departing his call and returning to his old ways as a fisherman for fish.

EASTER GREETINGS

3/4/2021

The infinite depth of Jesus' righteousness is fully revealed in His cry - forgive them Father for they know not what they do As I tap away, worldwide it is reported...

Living on the empty side of the Cross

30/3/2021

An already heaving Messiah wept in Gethsemane. It was just one night prior to His crucifixion.

Beggars at the Throne of Grace

28/3/2021

Is Christianity just a decoration, or is there reality back of it? ~ A. W.

Why do we come to the Cross?#

24/3/2021

Jesus didn’t die a painful and bloody death on the cross to save sinful flesh, but to become sinful flesh.

A Fragment of Discomfort?

21/3/2021

A dark Muslim stronghold will soon welcome a bold, young Christian family to serve the Lord of Eternal Life - for they have considered their life not their own.

A Parable of Simon from Cyrene

5/5/2020

A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.

5 Best Resurrection Quotes Across 500 Years

16/4/2020

"Blessed are those who have not seen and have yet believed.

Resurrection breeds Resurrection

13/4/2020

A second resurrection was soon to happen. A shame-filled Simon Peter fiddled in cold Galilean sand as he sat beached beside Jesus, enjoying the dawn brekkie.

Jesus Never Hides

12/4/2020

Dawn spawns a new day. Dawns just do that. Without any effort they dispel darkness. With Easter Sunday's new dawn, the only bright eternal dawn arrived.

Did The Father Change Between the Testaments?

10/4/2020

What truly happened at Calvary? He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all. . .

The Imprint of Calvary

6/4/2020

The cross of Christ will always be an offence to the natural man. ~ anon At 3pm Jesus uttered His final pain filled cry into all time.

Jesus stacks up!

4/4/2020

The transformational journey of Jesus' death and resurrection is the only, and almost always denied—message of salvation's one truth.

We all can need a Simon!

1/2/2020

Jesus set a model for mankind in the bearing of much pain. There is a green hill far away that our Lord and King forcibly climbed.

The Music of Emmaus

25/4/2019

It was Easter day. As two disciples walked to Emmaus from Jerusalem, their hearts burned within them, for Jesus too shared their journey.

The Miracle at Emmaus

23/4/2019

The Easter story and post-Easter story are rich with surprising events, fulfilled prophecy and the compelling supernatural.

Death Died When Christ Rose

21/4/2019

"The empty tomb of Christ is the cradle of the Christian church. " ~ W. R. Nicoll The resurrection is Christianity's make or break day.

The Resting Place of Sin

18/4/2019

At 3pm on that first Good Friday Jesus threw His final pain-filled cry into all time.

The Streets Cried for Blood

17/4/2019

By that first Good Friday, as a chilled dawn rose upon God's Son, blind pride had already smothered justice. Jerusalem's violent streets had screamed for His innocent blood.

The Wonder of the Cross

16/4/2019

It is no surprise that the Roman army presided at Jesus' crucifixion. The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, "Surely this was a righteous man.

8 Easter Bites

14/4/2019

Easter feeds the soul far longer than its eggs feed the body. Annually Easter pops up to help mankind's unbelief, and feed his good ones.

The Cross is not Obsolete#

11/4/2019

NOTE TO READER: today's SoulSnack could have been penned last night, but it is nigh 200 years old.

Don't Doubt the Cross!

9/4/2019

Don't doubt the Cross, refuse to dismiss Calvary. Lay hold of the terrible Cross. Claim His victory.

His Cross Was Not The End

7/3/2019

If I am dead, restless, troubled, enslaved or in chains my mortal coil is hindered in its walk with Jesus. This He does not desire.

Christianity - the Unicorn!

5/4/2018

Unicorns have stolen human imaginations since the 6th century BC. A horse with a spiralling horn even variously appears in the Bible.

Women The World Should Hear

4/4/2018

Recently the heavens had been so strange, so dark, so concealed and so empty.

Easter Re-thinks the 'Discipleship Box'

3/4/2018

The resurrection of Jesus the Christ nails my mind to grasp yet again at discipleship's true nature. People makes mistakes about Jesus - all the time.

The 5 Great Messages of Easter

2/4/2018

'The stone across the tomb was a mere pebble to He who is The Rock of Ages'. ~ anon. Jesus resurrection was history's 'T Intersection'.

Easter's Unspoken Purpose

1/4/2018

The Kingdom of Heaven and its righeousness does not come with careful observation, but arises as a yeast within believers.

At the Foot of that Terrible Cross

28/3/2018

Everyman's preset times and future depends entirely upon where he stands with the Lord, the judge of heaven and earth. There is no other way.

The Showdown of Easter

27/3/2018

Easter looks for allies. Men and women who will count themselves as Jesus reckoned Himself.

Easter's Transparent Father

26/3/2018

Jesus' Father could do more contain His love to man, than Jesus could contain His devotion to His Father.

Easter plants the new Tree of Life!

25/3/2018

Prior to recorded time Adam and Eve were banished from Eden. God placed angelic sentinels with flaming swords at Eden's gateway to prevent mankind's return.

Soul Scaffold ~ Betrayal & Torment

7/12/2017

Betrayal will always fail to explain how much it charges. As with Judas, betrayers have first died on the inside before they die 'on the outside'.

Strong Men Die Hard

12/9/2017

Christ's calls are ultimate. He is no soft-serve vendor. It is not self-safety to pursue Him.

The Garden of the Weak

18/6/2017

Gardens are pleasing and comfortable.

The Stone Was Gone - The Napkin Wasn't

17/4/2017

In that tomb of God's unjust dying a common napkin was left folded at Jesus' resurrection.

Soldiers Misbehavin'

11/4/2017

Before Jesus endured the nails, He had to face the military. Jesus' introduction to His death was both a mocking humiliation and a physical assault.

The Jesus of my Journey

7/4/2017

The Jesus of my journey is the crucified one.

Eden forms Gethsemane

6/4/2017

In the familiarity of a deep and personal closeness the Lord responds to His disciples' question - teach us to pray.

Still Jesus saw - still Jesus cared

5/4/2017

Jesus' sticky innocent blood dripped. Matted hair, sunken souls and slumped shoulders all felt it. These four devoted just stood close to Him.

Less than a Whisper - More than a Thought

4/4/2017

One of the greatest opportunities in history was handed to him on a platter - just travel alongside its finest leader.

The Art of Easter's Disciple

3/4/2017

An improbable messiah, Jesus the Christ stood before the raging masses.

Coddled or Crucified?#

16/1/2017

Tozer knew well the loneliness of a man who would return to Jesus what Jesus had given to him.

Thank God for the Nails#

8/12/2016

Young and proud and very handsome, I desired the earth and stars; I moved from place to place for pleasure- Seeking flesh and serving lust! I had the right to be conceited, I was born...

The Rumor of Wounding

31/10/2016

A parable for the devout and the inattentive alike: Dawn had just broken, yet the early morning cool stubbornly refused to lift.

The Impossibility of Scripting Life

28/6/2016

Boxing imitates life (or death). That great scholar Iron Mike Tyson completely and unwittingly summarised death's experience well when he reflected: everybody got plans until they get hit.

A Tale of Two Lakes

31/3/2016

Two unseen lakes rest in life's horizon. They are not twins. They are very far apart. Both lakes are forever.

THE TOMB TOURIST

29/3/2016

It shouldn't be hard to navigate a tomb, especially if it's yours. Hmmm . . .

Of Sealed Tombs, Minds & Hearts

28/3/2016

Jesus is dead, so proud men now make more foolish decisions. They went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

From Boss to Cross

23/3/2016

A war-torn back, a pure heart and no protection. This was Jesus' chosen lot. The only innocent person to ever draw breath hung pinned to a tree.

The Son Shone No More

22/3/2016

Fear arrived at noon. The crucifixion flicked earth's light switch off. ". . . for the sun stopped shining.

You Can't Sleep In Gethsemane

21/3/2016

Gethsemane holds no pillows, nor any couches. Jesus knelt in Gethsemane. He was already at war. As Jesus conquered evil it crushed His troubled heart.

Provoked by the Cross

20/3/2016

Before Jesus met the nails, He faced the military. Jesus' window to His crucifixion was as merciless as the hammer.

Arrested by Jesus

17/3/2016

An already heaving Messiah wept in Gethsemane. It was just one night before Jesus' crucifixion. What is you were in Gethsemane too, hidden but watching.

Lost in Innocence

16/3/2016

Pontius Pilate was in a purple pickle. Presented with both lies and the Lord - he could recognize the truth.

He Did Not Remove The Thorns.

15/3/2016

Jesus was upright, a man of righteousness. Jesus' crown of thorns was ample visible testimony to the truth that pain attempted to rule Him.

A Cheap Temple Curtain

14/3/2016

As Jesus gasped His final pained breath on the Cross, the Father tore the temple's dividing curtain downwards.

Stolen from a Cross

17/2/2016

Faith is no man's jailer. Faith has been betrayed. It has been exchanged for knowledge. Abundant Christian knowledge is spuriously advertised from pulpits.

The Shape of True Love

10/2/2016

Three centuries ago the firebrand pulpiteer Jonathon Edwards melted pride and chastened souls with his timeless sermon - Sinners in the Hands of an angry God.

It had to be - YOU!

24/1/2016

Sung by the luminaries of the entertainment industry for nearly a century is the 1924 Isham Jones penned, and ever-popular song 'It had to be you'.

Of Faith & Fire

20/1/2016

Jesus has called His believers to faithfulness while promising them fire. We must go through many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.

There is a Hole in the Heavens

7/10/2015

The heaven's contain a perfect heart shaped hole. It is where God's love tore the skies apart above Calvary.

Betrayed to Better

4/8/2015

I have long reflected upon a small and innocent man sold out by both His treasurer in an ancient garden, and His impulsive boy-like devotee on a cold eastern night...

When Jesus Came to Birmingham

22/7/2015

The world is not fit for Jesus, but His heart still fits this world.

God the Diamond

17/6/2015

Once upon a time (about three centuries ago really) the firebrand pulpiteer Jonathon Edwards melted pride and chastened souls with his timeless sermon - Sinners in the hands of an...

From Shame to Shepherd

9/4/2015

A second resurrection was soon to happen. Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.

Old Habits Die Hard Again!

8/4/2015

Jesus had returned to life, His old habit was living. Jesus' disciples had returned to work, their old habit was fishing. Fishing for food had replaced fishing for men.

Old Habits Die Hard!

7/4/2015

In the death-filled vacuum of Jesus' absence, quickly His disciples returned to their previous occupations.

Familiar with Empty?

6/4/2015

The tomb is empty. Crime-filled pain shreds Mary Magdalene's soul while she hunts for her Lord.

The Suffering of Heaven

31/3/2015

Upon a sinister mount my guilt was removed; undeservedly I gained redemption from my sins. This was the purpose of that first Easter, forgiveness - where there was none.

The Error of an Empty Cross

30/3/2015

At 3pm Jesus uttered His final pain filled cry into all time.

The Bellow of Blood

26/3/2015

Have you ever heard the bellow of blood? Blood screams for satisfaction, it flows for vengeance and demands justice. Yet the bellow of Christ's blood is love NOT retribution.

Gethsemane's Lead

24/3/2015

Returning the third time, Jesus said to them, 'are you still sleeping and resting? Enough. . . the son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

A Gethsemane Take-Away

23/3/2015

Before Jesus' Cross bound body was anointed by torture, His spirit and soul tore from the anguish within; He sought Heaven from Gethsemane.

Slow-Motion Devotion

9/2/2015

Your eyes gaze upwards, filling with tears that refuse to be restrained. It is very dark, not cold, but oh so dark. It shouldn't be, it is only mid-afternoon.

Interrupted by Grace

17/12/2014

Soul Snack 242/14 . . . Inhospitable places to humans are the richest soils of eternity.

Death's Lifetime Commentary

24/6/2014

Soul Snack 118/14 . . . My image is darkness and my presence is fear. This is what I want; it is always true of me.

Easter's Might

16/4/2014

Soul Snack 75/14 . . . A frosty Friday dawned upon God's Son; it would prove again that betrayal will suppress justice.

8 Easter Echoes

15/4/2014

Soul Snack 74/14 . . . Easter is still beaten-up by a world that rejects Jesus. The energy expelled today is equal to the Jews yesterday who bellowed .

3 Crosses + 1 Hill

14/4/2014

Soul Snack 73/14 . . . Three crosses on one hill equals Easter. Easter is the time of life reckoning.

Death's Headstone

13/4/2014

Soul Snack 72/14 . . . Easter leaves death behind. Death will remain forever dissatisfied. Death's headstone is chiseled . . . "I WIN" ~ Jesus.

The Cry of another Chosen One

8/4/2014

Soul Snack 69/14 . . . Drenched under the tear laden eyes of heaven, Jesus forgave the malevolently ignorant.

Pain's Palace!

8/4/2014

Soul Snack 70/14 . . .

The Thorns of Easter

7/4/2014

Soul Snack 68/14 . . . A midnight painted Calvary on that first Easter afternoon saw righteousness fenced by robbers. Jesus' life was being stolen.

When to Draw the Sword?

6/4/2014

Soul Snack 67/14 . . . With head-bowed the young man shuffled onto the stage.

The Death of God

12/10/2010

Soul Snack 175/10 . . . The Death of God I envisage a judgmental, seated circle of white togas, dusty and sandalled feet, under balding grey heads.

The Manic Cross

2/8/2010

Soul Snack 125/10 . . . The Manic Cross Ragged words were hurled from the cross, they were abandoned into an atmosphere seeping with both resentment and redemption.

The Risen Life - C

31/3/2010

Soul Snack 43/10 . . . The Risen Life - C By my early teenage years I had learned the artful skill of 'swapping'.

The Risen Life - B

30/3/2010

Soul Snack 42/10 . . .

The Risen Life - A

29/3/2010

Soul Snack 41/10 . . .

Calvary's claims.

3/9/2009

Soul Snack 9/149 . . . Calvary's claims! A blessing of untold proportions is to have the consciousness of sin.

A tiredness alert!

24/7/2009

Soul Snack 9/120 . . . A tiredness alert! Heaven's conquering will mightily crushes the already weary Jesus as He enters Gethsemane.

Stealing Jesus!

30/6/2009

Soul Snack 9/103 . . . Stealing Jesus! A crime filled canopy shrouds Mary's soul and shadows her spirit.

The Boomerang Truth

14/4/2009

Soul Snack 9/50 . . . The Boomerang Truth Summoning all the reserves that only a coward could muster, Peter utters his third Denial.

A Foolish Fox!

7/4/2009

Soul Snack 53/11 . . . A Foolish Fox! Jesus' reputation had preceded Him, it had even penetrated into Herod's palace.

Close Encounters

1/1/2001

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