Amos 8:9-14 “And on that day,” declares the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation;I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head;I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the Read More
Tag: Why the Cross
On Wednesdays we are going to explore some questions together: Why a Cross? Why Blood? Why a crown of thorns? Why during Passover? Why darkness? Why blood and water from His side?
Wed, 6:30 pm: Apr 2, 2025 – Why Blood and Water from His Side?
Zechariah 12:10-14 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a Read More
Wed, 6:30 pm: Mar 26, 2025 – Why a Crown of Thorns?
Genesis 3:17-19 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the treeof which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;thorns and thistles it shall bring forth Read More
Wed, 6:30 pm: Mar 19, 2025 – Why during Passover?
Exodus 12:1-13 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, Read More
Wed, 6:30 pm: Mar 12, 2025 – Why Blood?
Leviticus 17:10-16 “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you Read More
Wed, 6:30 pm: Mar 5, 2025 – Why a Cross?
Ash Wednesday Deuteronomy 21:22-23 “And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile Read More