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With one of his very last breaths while on the cross, Jesus spoke to and of his mother: When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman here is your son,” and to the disciple, “here is your mother.” (John 19:25) There can be no…

West of Jerusalem, between Mispeh and Shen, in the territory of Benjamin, the prophet Samuel erected a large rock. It was to be a memory stone that Samuel named “Ebenezer,” for the people of Israel; for, Samuel said, “ Thus far the Lord has helped us” (1 Samuel 7:12) It was a dramatic and enduring…

If we are not faithful, he remains faithful, because he cannot be false to himself. ( 2 Timothy 2:13) This is the only use of the word “cannot” in reference to the risen Jesus in all of the New Testament. The words are St. Paul’s to his much loved co-worker Timothy, written from Paul’s prison…

Sing to the Lord, for He has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. Shout aloud, and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel. ( Isaiah 12:5-6) These words of the prophet Isaiah are fulfilled in our own generation every time we sing the…

During Holy Week, the words of Isaiah the prophet, spoken more than seven hundred years before Jesus was born, speak to us more than two thousand years after Jesus’ crucifixion: Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by Him, and afflicted. But he was…

Throughout history any triumphant kings and heroes have returned from conquests to a great celebration of cheers and waving flags and shouts of adoration. In the first century a carpenter’s son was greeted in Jerusalem with great excitement and celebration for being the son of David, and the son of God. Today we don’t re-create…

Jesus sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. . . If anyone asks you ‘Why are you untying it?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it.’ (Luke 19:29) The disciples did…

He (Jesus) says that in spite of her incredible pain, a new mother is filled with joy at the sight of her child. So Jesus has the audacity to say “That’s just a dim hint of the joy I sense when I look at you. All my suffering, torment and death I have willingly borne,…

In 1858 Christina Campbell and her husband settled in the frontier town of Salina, Kansas. They opened a small store and traded with the Indians for pelts and furs. Christina was in charge of the store and befriended the Indian women who traded with her. When Christina and her husband set up the store, she…

In one of the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes, the great detective was approached by the servant of a nobleman of the Royal family to help discreetly to recover the noble man’s son. The boy was only eight years old, and had disappeared from the boarding school he attended. Holmes agreed to…