Tag: Easter

• QUESTIONS FOR JESUS ON GOOD FRIDAY

  Which hurt more, the whip, the nails, the public ridicule or the fact that Peter denied you?  I think I know the answer. Father, forgive them–Really, because that is a little hard to swallow? Why did you use a Persian loan word to describe heaven to the thief, because, honestly, that kinda freaks me out?…

  Jamie Greening

  April 18, 2014

  All, Bible, Church, Culture

  atonement, crucifixion, Easter, Good Friday, Jesus, Judas, Paradise

• FRIDAY THE 13th STORIES: FREE PLOTS

  As you probably know, Greenbean is not a superstitious person.  I trust in the Lord, and he is not whimsical. However, I enjoy a good spooky story.  Not gory, but spooky.  One of my favorite things about pastoring was every year at children’s camp I would tell a spooky story (okay, age appropriate spooky for…

  Jamie Greening

  September 13, 2013

  All, Books, Culture, Writing

  Easter, Friday the 13th, Harry Potter, JamesBond, plot, stories, time travel

• ISAIAH 53 ON GOOD FRIDAY

  This is a repost of last year’s Good Friday blog.   More Holy Week related blogs can be linked to at the end of this post. ISAIAH 53, RSV, With Comment. Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? Very few have believed, but not the…

  Jamie Greening

  March 29, 2013

  Church, Preaching, Writing

  Easter, Good Friday, Holy Week, Iniquities, Isaiah 53, Jesus, Suffering Servant

• A MEDITATION FOR MAUNDY THURSDAY

  Today is Holy Thursday–the day we think about Jesus eating the Lord’s Supper and washing the disciples’ feet.  I am thinking about John 13.   I have included the text of John 13:1-17 (ESV) below, with my thoughts today. [Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet] [13:1] Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that…

  Jamie Greening

  March 28, 2013

  All, Church, Writing

  disciples, Easter, foot washing, Holy Week, Jesus, Maundy Thursday, Peter, serving