A man on a mission: ‘It is finished’

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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...]

Tongues of teachers

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Isaiah 50:4-9a | John 13:21-32 God, Isaiah tells us, has given us the tongues of teachers, so the question we have on this Wednesday night in Holy Week is this: What are you going to teach? What word are you going to give to sustain the weary? God has told us the Good News that he wants proclaimed. He has given us the words that need to be spoken, especially in this intense period of time, when we are about to face our deepest fears and experience our harshest terrors and most intense grief. God has called us – each and every one of us here – to speak the truths that need to … [Read more...]