The Word to the World
I know that Jesus told his disciples, “Rise, let us be going” (Mark 14:42), but lately I’m having difficulty leaving the garden. John indicates that Gethsemane was a walled garden (John 18:1). It was perhaps therefore normally a secured place, under lock and key. I’ve
In her 1970 hit, Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell was exactly right: Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. For those who love Christ and his church,
My ever-vigilant spell checker will not let it go. Too bad: I’m sticking with “preprayered.” With a new week commencing yesterday, and in light of the Sunday morning sermon, I have prayer on my mind, and I trust in the days ahead it will be
In the text before us, we enter the Garden with Jesus, Peter, James, and John. Without being unduly critical, let us learn to pay better attention than they did. Whether we are prepared for what lies ahead depends on it. We must watch and we