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Today GOOD FRIDAY Christian Worship One Year Lectionary Old Testament  Is 52:13–53:12 Psalm   Ps 22 New Testament  Heb 7:26–28 Gospel   Jn 18:1–19:42 Today GOOD FRIDAY United Methodist Revised Common Lectionary Old Testament  Is 52:13–53:12 Psalm  Ps 22 New Testament  Heb 10:16–25 Gospel   Jn 18:1–19:42 Today GOOD FRIDAY Catholic Daily Readings First Reading  Is 52:13–53:12 Response  Lk 23:46 Psalm   Ps 31:2 ,  6 ,  12–13 ,  15–17 ,  25 Second Reading  Heb 4:14–16 ;  5:7–9 Gospel Acclamation  Php 2:8–9 Gospel   Jn 18:1–19:42 Today GOOD FRIDAY Lutheran Service Book Three Year Lectionary Old Testament  Is 52:13–53:12 Psalm   Ps 22  or  Ps 31 Epistle   Heb 4:14–16 ;  5:7–9 Gospel  Jn 18:1–19:42  or  Jn 19:17–30 Today GOOD FRIDAY Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings Old Te...

March 30: Taunting Death Numbers 33:50–34:29; 1 Corinthians 15:35–58 ; Psalm 29:1–11 My best friend’s mother, a dear family friend, died of Lou Gehrig’s disease (als). Over the span of three years, the disease attacked her nerve cells, starting with her hands and feet and moving inward to her vital organs. Every time I visited her, she would be changed—her cane became a wheelchair, and her warbled words were muffled into silence. Although she was fully alert, she slowly lost the ability to communicate her feelings and needs. In the end, only her eyes displayed the tumultuous feelings underneath. Those who confront the reality of death or the death of a loved one don’t doubt their own fallibility. They are closely acquainted with the reality that so many strangely disregard. And they cling to the hope of the resurrection that Paul eloquently relays, and that the Corinthians were slow to understand and believe: “We will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the...

Morning, March 30 Go To Evening Reading “He was numbered with the transgressors.” — Isaiah 53:12 Why did Jesus suffer himself to be enrolled amongst sinners? This wonderful condescension was justified by many powerful reasons. In such a character he could the better become their advocate . In some trials there is an identification of the counsellor with the client, nor can they be looked upon in the eye of the law as apart from one another. Now, when the sinner is brought to the bar, Jesus appears there himself. He stands to answer the accusation. He points to his side, his hands, his feet, and challenges Justice to bring anything against the sinners whom he represents; he pleads his blood, and pleads so triumphantly, being numbered with them and having a part with them, that the Judge proclaims, “Let them go their way; deliver them from going down into the pit, for he hath found a ransom.” Our Lord Jesus was numbered with the transgressors in order that they might feel...

March 30th Holiness v. hardness towards God And He … wondered that there was no intercessor. Isaiah 59:16 . The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer. It sounds right to say that we pray; we read books on prayer which tell us that prayer is beneficial, that our minds are quieted and our souls uplifted when we pray; but Isaiah implies that God is amazed at such thoughts of prayer. Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. Too often instead of worshipping God, we construct statements as to how prayer works. Are we worshipping or are we in dispute with God— ‘I don’t see how You are going to do it.’ This is a sure sign that we are not worshipping. When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne and dictat...

March 30 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom Song of Sol. 2:15 ( R.V. ) How numerous the little foxes are! Little compromises with the world; disobedience to the still, small voice in little things; little indulgences to the flesh to the neglect of duty; little strokes of policy; doing evil in little things that good may come; and the beauty, and the fruitfulness of the vine are sacrificed! J. Hudson Taylor  Hardman, Samuel G., and Dwight Lyman Moody. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour . Willow Grove, PA: Woodlawn Electronic Publishing, 1997. Print.

Spiritual Life for Nathanael Excerpt “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.” This is one of the great cryptic statements of the New Testament . For centuries men have tried to decipher the symbolism of the fig tree. In some Scripture passages it is a symbol for peace. In many others it is a symbol for a home. Or it could be taken literally and just mean a fig tree. Exactly what it represents is not terribly important, but we will consider it as a fig tree. What is important is that Nathanael had a religious experience that no one but Jesus knew about. Maybe Nathanael had been reading the story of Jacob’s ladder. Maybe he had been contemplating being baptized by John the Baptist. Maybe he was thinking about the Messiah. Maybe he had prayed that the Messiah would reveal himself to him. The point is, Nathanael had had a spiritual experience under a fig tree and Jesus was saying, “I know about the experience you had that you shared  only ...