You know that old spiritual that asks, “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?. . .when they nailed Him to the tree?. . .when they laid Him in the tomb?. . . .when God raised Him from the tomb?” Well, the answer to that
You know that old spiritual that asks, “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?. . .when they nailed Him to the tree?. . .when they laid Him in the tomb?. . . .when God raised Him from the tomb?” Well, the answer to that
Easter by George Herbert RISE heart ; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delayes, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him mayst rise : That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and
Great reflections on Hell and what it means that Jesus “descended into Hell,” from Dale M. Coulter: In the Torgau sermon on Christ’s descent, Luther remarks that the paintings depicting this event “show well how powerful and useful this article is, why it took place,
Some of the deepest waters of Lutheran theology and where it makes some of its greatest contributions are in the realm of Christology. For Lent I have been reading The Two Natures in Christ by Martin Chemnitz, that master of Biblical, Medieval, and Patristic (not
For a Good Friday meditation, read The Sacrifice by George Herbert after the jump. It presents the Crucifixion from the point of view of Christ Himself. A repeated pattern in the stanzas is a contrast between how we treat Him and how He treats us.
Theo Hobson, in the British Spectator, critiques the New Atheist insistence that we can have morality–indeed, a better morality–apart from religion. In doing so, he shows that even today’s secular humanist morality, which the atheists take as axiomatic, actually derives from Christianity. A truly atheist,
You may well be wondering, why is Easter so late this year? After the jump, an excerpt and a link to an interesting article about how the date for Easter is calculated. It also demonstrates once again the antiquity of the celebration of Christ’s resurrection,
We commemorate quite a lot of things on Maundy Thursday. Jesus washed His disciple’s feet, giving them–and us–the “mandate” (maundate; hence, “Maundy”) to love one another. Then He gave them His body and His blood in bread and wine, thereby making clear the meaning of
The Invitation Come ye hither all, whose taste Is your waste; Save your cost, and mend your fare. God is here prepar’d and drest, And the feast, God, in whom all dainties are. Come ye hither all, whom wine Doth define, Naming you not to
Church attendance is down, but lots of people–including those who don’t come the rest of the year–still go to church on Easter, as well as Christmas. The tendency is sometimes to look down on “Christmas/Easter Christians.” But the fact is, on these two days of
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