The new Christian Carnival has been posted at Brain Cramps for God
. My contribution this time is from my devotional list
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Anne Dalton has been a friend for over 15 years. After seeing her this past week, I can say without any doubt – I have not met all the many faces (facets) of Anne! This woman takes her gift for teaching (26 years in Title 1 schools) into her current season as an historical interpreter,…
Most of us, I think, put our teaching emphasis on Palm Sunday and Easter. If there is any “nod” to the 40 days of Lent, the Last Supper, and the Friday Passion of the Christ, it is usually only one teaching for each. Every year in recent memory, I spend time studying and contemplating Holy…
I was thinking this morning about Jesus sitting on a hillside talking to 2, 3, 4,000 people. I am not an ancient near Eastern historian so I don’t know what the population of Nazareth or even Jerusalem was. It struck me that these people walked from their homes to go hear what this “Teacher” had…
As September draws near even the churches who have taken a summer vacation have put out their bulletins and dusted off their websites to entice members to sign up for small group classes. Leadership personnel are hit with Saturday and after-work, late-in-the-evening seminars to prepare them for various committee positions and re-certify them to teach…
I have two terrific SS (Sunday School) teachers. They take time every week to read the material, check other sources for what they say about the subject or the time frame. One of the teachers has a Masters Degree in Biblical Languages and the other teacher reads extensively and brings us many perspectives from Oswald…
Instead of focusing my attention on what all is going on in my “normal” week, I’ve been meditating on what Jesus’ week may have been like. It’s Holy Week. Question: Why did Jesus, Immanuel, God-in-the-flesh, come for me? He could have fulfilled the need for a perfect sacrifice without coming to earth. He could have…