Gethsemane is “The Olive Press”. It is the garden that liberates the sin of the Garden of Eden and stamps God’s character on us. In the stamping, the olives are crushed and the oil flows. It can also be akin to the foot stomping of the grape, where the finest wine – or new wine […]
Teaching Topic: Easter
Participant in The Passion – Judas Iscariot
When one thinks about the Passion Week during the Lenten season, one’s mind goes to the pascal lamb. The word “pascal” from “pascha”, meaning, “passion”, depicts the week from the triumphal entry to the resurrection. We can also think of physical passion, where one’s normal expression starts with a kiss – that most intimate and […]
Easter by the Letter
The Celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus. E = Emptiness – At the creation of the world, the earth was void and empty of God’s fullness. A cataclysmic event rendered it formless, but God brought order through light. This was the first day – Sunday. God finalized His creation through redemption at the dawn of […]
The Calendar of the Resurrection
There are many calendars in use: The Julian, Gregorian – which we use; it reformed the Julian one in 1582 by bringing Easter to the time of the Spring Equinox. Also, there’s the Jewish calendar. I want to go back to the beginning and see how God formed His pattern for life. He did it […]