Lenten Reflection Week 7: Luke 23:46

Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit”; and when he had said this he breathed his last. Well, it’s finally here - the last week of Lent. The weeks of sacrifice, prayer, almsgiving and service have all lead us to this point; ready to celebrate our risen Lord. [...]

Lenten Reflection Week 6: John 19:30

When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.” And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit. With just one more week left in this Lenten season, let us take a moment and look back on what we’ve finished/accomplished. Jesus had a mission, a purpose, a goal He had to complete. Yet, [...]

Lenten Reflection Week 5: John 19:28

After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I thirst.” This has been mentioned as fulfilled prophesy from Psalm 22:16 and/or Psalm 69:22. Jesus’ physical thirst is described vividly in 22:16, “As dry as a potsherd [a pottery fragment or a piece of sun-baked clay] is [...]

Lenten Reflection Week 4: Matthew 27:46

And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” This fourth saying of Christ from the cross is interesting in many ways. Two of which we will examine and reflect on for this fourth week of Lenten reflections. [...]

Lenten Reflection Week 3: John 19:26-27

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. As we’ve seen the past two weeks, Jesus is extremely forgiving and merciful….and this [...]

Lenten Reflection Week 2: Luke 23:43

He replied to him, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” In this saying from the cross, Jesus assures a dying thief that he will be with Him in paradise today. What then is here for us to understand? Some have used this verse as an argument against the [...]

Lenten Reflection Week 1: Luke 23:34

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” Just picture it; Jesus, after having been scourged  and made to carry His own cross to “the place of the Skull” [Golgotha in Aramaic, Kranion in Greek, and Calvary in Latin] prays this prayer to The Father. In physical pain, unimaginable to most of [...]