Several years ago, we attended a church that had a Good Friday service where we nailed our sins to the cross. It was a quiet, reflective service with scripture reading, prayer, a wooden cross, nails, a hammer, slips of paper, and pencils. The only noise was the sound of hammering, tap, tap, tap. One by…
1 John 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. When I survey the wondrous crossOn which the Prince of glory died,My richest gain I count but loss,And pour contempt on all my pride. Philippians 2:5-8 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did…
April 1 … April Fools’ Day. An interesting word history for “fool” Word History: The pejorative nature of the term fool is strengthened by a knowledge of its etymology. Its source, the Latin word follis, meant “a bag or sack, a large inflated ball, a pair of bellows.” Users of the word in Late Latin, however, saw a…
In past years, the church we attended had a tradition on Good Friday to provide a quiet, meditative service. We wrote our sins on small scraps of paper, and nailed them to a wooden cross. The only sound in that service was the rap, rap, rap of those nails. As we meditated we also read…
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight.I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. Psalm 43:4 One of the practices in Lent is introspection, reflection. My friend, Ashley, wrote about this practice on Lent on Facebook this week — Set up a quiet place in your…