by Julie Turner | Mar 29, 2015 | What's Happening
The next words from the cross we will consider is the prayer recorded in Luke 23:54: ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.’ The ‘them’ of this prayer includes those who were actively involved in the death of Jesus:...
by Julie Turner | Mar 29, 2015 | What's Happening
The first cry of Jesus from the cross which we will consider is His cry from Ps 22:1: ‘My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?’ (Matt 27:46) It is a cry of dereliction, a cry of desolation. Christians traditionally understand this prayer not only as an...
by Julie Turner | Mar 29, 2015 | What's Happening
Today is Palm Sunday and as we enter the final week of Jesus’s life and focus on His death and ultimately on His resurrection, we are aware that we are entering a mystery we can never fully comprehend. The fact that Jesus chose to suffer and die for the sins of...
by Julie Turner | Mar 26, 2015 | What's Happening
The message Paul preached was based on the centrality of the cross: ‘we preach Christ crucified… to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.’ (1 Cor 1:23-24) Later he says ‘I resolved to know...
by Julie Turner | Mar 26, 2015 | What's Happening
Tonight’s Bible study looked at 1 Cor 1:18-25, where Paul reminds the Corinthians of the centrality of the cross, a message which makes no sense at all to the Jews or Gentiles but which ultimately reveals God’s ways of working. The message of Christ...
