1. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.
  2. You are not alone if you find it difficult to wrap your mind around the auspices of the Old Testament sacrificial system.
  3. A set of Holy Week poems written and published first by Tanner Olson on his website, writtentospeak.com.
  4. Today I would like to share The Legend of the Dogwood, inspired by the words of Stoney Cooper.
  5. If we just say to God, “We don’t get it, please explain,” he will. He will send us a preacher to point us to his words for more clarification.
  6. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  7. Human history, our history, is the story of two Adams with two very different encounters with the devil.
  8. What we discover in O’Connor’s stories and Martin Luther’s theology is that God’s grace is elusive because the human heart is resistant to it.
  9. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  10. Some explanations are better than others, but they remain our explanations—except if we had some perspective from outside, above, and behind nature.
  11. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  12. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.