On Good Friday, while we go through our daily routines, use your imagination and travel back with me twenty centuries to the dusty roads of southern Palestine. The son is appearing over the horizon. By this time, the rooster has crowed, alerting Simon Peter to the fact that, just as Jesus predicted, he would deny … Continue reading Good Friday – 20 Centuries Ago…
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Drawing Near to God – And What It Cost Him
Understanding what it means to be able to “draw near to God”... There are people in important roles whose office I could call today and be told either it will be days or weeks before I can see them, or that I can’t see them at all. Not so with the God who spoke the … Continue reading Drawing Near to God – And What It Cost Him
Christmas & Brueghel’s “Procession to Calvary”
The year was 1564, and Danish painter, Pieter Brueghel, is completing a perplexing work. It will come to be known as "The Procession to Calvary". But there's something most intriguing about this painting. Like the "Where's Waldo?" pictures (begun by Martin Handford in 1987), the observer has to diligently search Brueghel's painting to even find … Continue reading Christmas & Brueghel’s “Procession to Calvary”