Hello World,

As today is Palm Sunday, and the first day of Holy Week leading up to Easter, next Sunday, how fitting that the UP channel is showing “The Passion of the Christ.” This is the first time this captivating film has appeared on commercial television since its debut in 2004. I saw the movie when it was in the theaters, and I was rendered silent after watching the atrocity of Jesus’ murder depicted squarely in my face…I had to keep reminding myself it was just a film and at the same time, I realized the film probably couldn’t capture the totality of Jesus’ barbaric sacrificial death for us…

Below is a scene from the movie….This is Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane…

How are you honoring our Lord’s sacrifice this week?

Any thoughts?

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As we begin Holy Week culminating in Easter a week from today, I just want to focus on Ecclesiastes 12:14….This is the meaning of life….Nothing more and nothing less…

“Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”

Below are some of my favorite praise and worship songs that inspire me to fear God and keep His commandments…

1. Israel & New Breed….”Alpha & Omega”

2. Kirk Franklin…”Hosanna”

3. Richard Smallwood…”Total Praise”

As I go through this week, I plan to focus on how I can fear God and keep His commandments…How about you?

Any thoughts?

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A week from today, we celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ…and so today is the first day of Holy Week…And we are commanded in His Word to be holy…

1 Peter 1:15-19 (New International Version)

¹⁵But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; ¹⁶for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”^[a]

 ¹⁷Since you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear. ¹⁸For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, ¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

As I go throughout the week in the hustle and bustle of daily living, I pray that I will pause and take time to thank God for His sacrifice for me…Sometimes I am stunned that I even call myself a Christian…Not because I don’t feel love for the Lord in my heart, but because I am a person that is ever so prone to anxiety and fear…You would think with all of the verses in the Bible about not having fear and anxiety, I would not be this way…but it is what it is sometimes…And yet as I type these words, I know that the Lord loves me — an anxious and fearful sinner…

And I so as I revel in His love for me, I have to offer my praise….And we are commanded to praise the Lord in His Word…

Psalm 150 (New International Version)

Psalm 150

 ¹ Praise the LORD. ^[a]
       Praise God in his sanctuary;
       praise him in his mighty heavens. ² Praise him for his acts of power;
       praise him for his surpassing greatness. ³ Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
       praise him with the harp and lyre, ⁴ praise him with tambourine and dancing,
       praise him with the strings and flute, ⁵ praise him with the clash of cymbals,
       praise him with resounding cymbals. ⁶ Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
       Praise the LORD.

In Jesus’ name, amen, amen and amen…

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