Why Palm Sunday?
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.
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.
New Zealand is rather affectionately named The Shaky Isles. Why, no doubt you wonder? With over 14000 earthquakes per annum the eptithet is well deserved.
It appears that the desire for virtue by men and women may have been stronger in bygone seasons. History records their unusual pursuits, reflections and affections.
There exists no other doorway into the appraisal of things spiritual than a grace given capacity. There is no casual Holy Spirit gift for discernment.
You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to You.
. . . live your life as strangers here in reverent fear. (1 Peter 1:17b) The Apostle Peter addresses the elect (Christians) scattered throughout the 'reachable' world.
For You are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God. (Psalm 86:10) 'God gives Himself to us.
Into our contemporary moral morass Isaiah could have been (and is) prophesying. There is still nothing new under the sun.
“In their own eyes, [the wicked] flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.
I will gather the lost and love the lame. God heals the outcasts, those for whom nobody cares.