The Last Seven Words: “I thirst.” (John 19:28) For the last week, I have been staying at the house of a friend while she and her family are on vacation. My job is to care for the house without breaking too many things, and to care for the family’s two dogs without letting them get away. It is a lovely house in an older section of Arlington: Large, airy, filled with light, obviously much loved, and very much a home. In the kitchen, there is one thing, however, that has completely captured my attention: a perpetual … [Read more...]
A man on a mission: ‘It is finished’
April 22, 2011 By 4 Comments
Good Friday 2011 “It is finished.” If you had been standing at the foot of the cross and saw the man you called “Lord,” the man you believed was the Son of God, crucified and dying, what would you think those words meant? If all of your hopes and dreams were pinned on this one man, the one you had followed throughout Palestine, the one you listened to so closely, the one you watched cure the sick and raise the dead … what would you think those words – “It is finished” – meant? Would all your dreams be dying up on that cross with him? Would all your hopes die up … [Read more...]
