Louder Than the Voices

Several years ago, on Easter Sunday morning, a dear friend of mine went to be with Jesus. That particular morning, I was singing a duet with another lady from our church. Our song? I've Just Seen Jesus. Still slightly reeling from the news of Betty's passing, I blurted out, right before we sang, that we had to rejoice because Betty truly had Just seen Jesus. As the thought of that went through my mind, it was hard to stay focused on the song but the thoughts I had as the words came out were incredible. The whole scenario made it all so very real to me. Luke 24:1-8 says: On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2  They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3  but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4  While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5  In their fright the ...

So I have wandered back and forth over the last few days trying to decide if I should talk about Palm Sunday or if I should talk about Good Friday.   I guess what I came up with is a combination of both.   Let me tell you about my Thursday. Thursday morning, my first order of business was to go to our Weatherization office and network a new printer to two computers. This was a little different circumstance than normal because we did not want this printer connected to the computers through the network, but actually hardwired to each computer. I had figured out how to do this and went, anticipating it to go fine. It took some finagling but bottom line, I made it work. I was happy and thinking everything was good…..on   to my next stop. That is where the reality of the day started to rear its head.   When I got to the other office, I couldn’t see a problem and though that might be a good thing, I always worry that the issue is with me when that happens bec...

It seems this acronym has somewhat faded out and I have mixed feelings about that. I don't like it when things become such commonplace in our lives that it is no big deal. For a while there it seemed to me a lot of people were on the WWJD? bandwagon without really being reminded to guard your activities because Jesus probably really wouldn't be doing what you just did. Fortunately, Jesus spent time here on earth showing us exactly what He would do. He showed us to care for the poor, the sick, and the ones who had nothing to give. He showed us that ministering to the needs of others was our greatest purpose. He did this even at extraordinary times. I am reminded of the passage in Luke 22. Judas had brought the guards to arrest Jesus. Peter, thinking he should defend Jesus, drew a sword and cut off one of the guards' ears. Even as they were questioning Jesus to arrest Him, Jesus was touching the guard's ear and healing it. I have to tell you, personally, it is hard eno...

Can you believe it is March already? Every year time seems to go faster for me. This year has just seemed like a blur. Easter is the end of this month so I decided to focus on Christ's journey to the cross. So often we start the Easter story with the events that took place in the Upper room, but I want to go back to what seemed to most people, a silent night in a little town called Bethlehem. Our Scripture this week is from Luke 2: 1-18 And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2  This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. 3  So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. 4  Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5  to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, [ a ] who was with child. 6  So it was, t...