Good Friday, maybe seems like a strange name for the day in which Jesus died upon the cross.
I always wondered to myself, why in the world would somebody take two names of weekdays and put them together into Monday Thursday? It didn't make a whole lot of sense.
Donkeys throughout the world bear a distinguishing mark on their backs. It's a darker part of their fur that runs along their entire spinal cord and also across their shoulders.
We're told that as Jesus was on the cross, darkness covered the entire land, and this was a supernatural darkness.
What could this man have possibly done to earn his salvation? He was nailed to a cross. There was nothing that he could possibly do other than just have a change of heart.
This ring doesn't talk about what I've done, how I feel, anything that I've accomplished at all. This ring was given to me by my wife. This ring is her pledge of love and faithfulness to me.
The theme for the devotion today is that God is in control.
Can you think of a holiday in the church year that is celebrated on the 25th of a month? Christmas, of course! But take that back then nine months. And what do we get? The 25th of March.
Jesus is going to come in, he's going to come to church, he's going to speak wonderful words from God's Word, and then he is going to be completely rejected, abused and they're going to try to kill him. But notice how this section starts out.
Jesus saved the best until last. Yet, sometimes in our sinfulness, we don't want to save the best until last.
What does God have to say about the use of alcohol? We're looking at some surprising truths about Jesus. And doesn't it surprise you just a little bit how Jesus first reveals his glory? The very first miracle that Jesus does is: turning water into wine.
When we think about the wealth of this world, it's absolutely nothing compared to what God could have and what God does have.
