by ProfDave, ©2022 (Apr. 15, 2022) — As a toddler, my mother taught me to pray, “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake …” And they wondered why I wouldn’t go to sleep. Fast forward seventy years (2018) to my […]
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Palm Sunday
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Apr. 12, 2021) — Sunday was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week for Christians. On the day foretold by the prophet Daniel (9) centuries earlier, and as described by Isaiah 62 and Zechariah 9, Jesus presented himself to Jerusalem as the “Anointed Prince,” the Messiah, riding on a donkey and cleansing […]
Why Did Jesus Have to Die?
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Mar. 29, 2021) — Why did Jesus have to die? It is clear from all four gospels that Jesus had expected to die on a Roman cross from the beginning. While his followers stubbornly refused to believe it, he was certain the prophets had foretold it centuries before. He did nothing to […]
Passover and Holy Week
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Mar. 25, 2021) — Sunday is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week for Christians. It coincides this year with the Passover for our Jewish friends. Christians celebrate a spiritual deliverance; Jews a national deliverance. Both are based on historical events. Passover starts Saturday at sundown. It commemorates the night that God […]
Lent? What’s that?
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Feb. 17, 2021) — Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Liturgical Christians receive the sign of the cross on their foreheads, made from the previous Palm Sunday’s ashes. They wear that sign all day as a symbol of penitence. I received the ashes one year and wore them with […]