The Marks He Kept

The resurrection did not look like what anyone expected. And perhaps that is still true. He does not always come when we expect, or in the way we imagine. But he comes.
And when he does, the marks remain.

The Day Between

They went home.

That is what the gospels tell us, almost in passing. After the cross, after the burial, after Joseph of Arimathea rolled the stone into place, the women who had followed from Galilee went home and prepared spices

Where the Cross Was Planted

The death of Jesus Christ was not a tragedy that God permitted. It was an act that God initiated. The Creator, entering his own creation. The Judge, taking the place of the condemned. The one without sin, becoming sin. Not as a last resort. As a plan.

Easter 2025

EASTERHansraj Jain “Stop!” he called out loud and clear. The pallbearers did. They set it down. With compassion and pain written all over his face, he looked into the mother’s eyes and then said to the dead young man, get up. And he did! Taking him by the hand, the now alive youth, he turned …

2025 Lent Devotional – Day 40

Lent Devotional: Day 40The Power of the CrossRev. Dr. David Mende 1 Corinthians 1:18 – For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For the message of the gallows is foolishness to those who are perishing, but …

2025 Lent Devotional – Day 39

Lent Devotional: Day 39A Confident Death: Into The Father’s Hands!Rev. Vidush Bhandari Luke 23:46 “Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.” What is Death? We think that Death is to go from the land of the living into …