During the Gospels, there’s a stretch of shoreline that feels colder than most. The wind off the water smells like damp earth and something older, something that has settled into the tomb stones. Mark takes us there in chapter five, verses one through twenty. A man comes running from the graveyard when Jesus steps out […]
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There’s a chapter in Scripture that most people skip over, or read once and never return to. A sealed door in an old cathedral sits in the middle of the prophet’s book, heavy with iron hinges and smelling of old incense mixed with something darker in it. Two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, tell this story,
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Forsaken No More, Bartimaeus Cries Out in Darkness, Mark 10:46-52 When the sun bleeds out across the sky like a cathedral window at twilight, the road outside Jericho is deep purples and bruised reds. Hundreds of people are chasing after this guy named Jesus, who is turning heads and flipping tables on the religious scene,
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As Christians, we must see these children not only as victims of a fallen world but also as bearers of God’s hope for renewal in a world plagued by strife and division. Children bear the weight of humanity’s failings through their tender hearts. The chaos they inherit is marked by violence, discord, and destruction reflects
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Ezekiel stands in a valley choked with death and bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14. This is not your average graveyard. It’s a blinding vision of hopelessness, where life has been reduced to its most basic form. Bleached, scattered and broken bones stretch endlessly before him, remnants of a vibrant people now reduced to a skeletal wasteland.
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