“Once Offered, Twice Expected” In shadows deep, the temple stood, where priests performed their sacred good. The blood of bulls, the smoke’s ascent, yet sin remained—a heavy scent. Then came the Lamb, both pure and true, His sacrifice, a crimson dew. Christ offered once, His life laid bare, to bear ...
Read More »Casting Lots at the Cross
John 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots ...
Read More »What Has He Done? – Passion Week One (Chinese/English)
LUKE 23:45-47 路加福音 23:45-47 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. 大约是第六个时辰,直到第九个时辰,全地一片黑暗。 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. 太阳变暗了,圣殿的幔子被撕裂了。 And when Jesus had cried with a loud ...
Read More »The Joyful Replacement
Jesus’ death on the cross, seemed to be a mournful loss. A loss that rang o’re the world that day, thinking that Jesus had been put away. Put away and out of their lives, when they thought Jesus surely had died. Although Jesus did die on the cross, it was ...
Read More »A Rooster, A Tree, and A Pipe
My dad seldom lit his pipe, it was used more as an aid. What kind of an aid comes in the form of a pipe? Just months before I was born, Dad had been diagnosed with a degenerative muscle disease affecting his neck. He tried treatments, which helped some. He ...
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