Still Walking Around You may have seen churches decorate crosses with purple, black, and white scarves during Easter.  The purple scarf is usually placed on Palm Sunday and represents the royalty of J...  Read More

Do Not Be Afraid During our recent Evening Women's Bible Study, Julia Nell shared these words of Martin Luther regarding the angels at the empty tomb:...the angels come with two commands:  the first i...  Read More

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;                  He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;                  He burns the chariots with fire.“Be still, and know that I am God.             ...  Read More

Easter Sunday Blessed Resurrection Day!  He is risen.  He is risen, indeed!Alleluia!  During the forty days of Lent, many church traditions refrain from singing "alleluia," "hallelujah" and/or "gloria...  Read More

Holy Saturday Matthew 27: 62-66 (NKJV)On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate, saying, “Sir, we remember, while He was still...  Read More

The Stations of the Cross From the earliest of days, followers of Jesus told the story of his passion, death and resurrection. Centuries ago, Christian pilgrims desired to visit the Holy Land and see ...  Read More

Maundy Thursday An odd sounding word - maundy - appears in an equally odd sounding day of Holy Week, Maundy Thursday.  When I was younger I wondered why we celebrated Monday Thursday, two days of the ...  Read More

Holy Wednesday "The Wednesday of Holy Week is known as both Holy Wednesday and Spy Wednesday, as this was the day that Judas made arrangements to betray Jesus. Some churches offer a Tenebrae service o...  Read More

Holy Tuesday Holy Tuesday is sometimes called Fig Tuesday because the disciples (and Jesus) come upon the fig tree that Jesus cursed on Monday afternoon.  It's also a day that leaders sought to discre...  Read More

And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of thos...  Read More

Palm Sunday Today is Palm Sunday. In the traditional church calendar (observed by many denominations), Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of Lent (the 40 days before Easter), the beginning of Holy Week (...  Read More

Passover In Mark 14 (vs. 12-31), while celebrating Passover, Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper, harkening back to the first Passover.  Read these verses from Exodus 12 (vs. 3-13 ESV) and reflect on t...  Read More