Lenten Devotional (19) & the Chorus of the Empty Tomb

The Bible Project, which has produced some fairly decent material, has gone the way of all flesh by capitulating to the gay narrative.

God’s voice is a great comfort for the Christian. In this Lent, we need to give thanks to God for not allowing the monologue of evil to triumph.

“Our God comes and will not be silent.”-Psalm 50

In God’s world, the voice from heaven silences the speech from hell. The crucifixion appeared to be a sign that the seed of the serpent finally silenced God’s voice. But Easter’s voice came three days later like a thunderous proclamation and declared once and for all: Our God comes and will not be silent.

The crucifixion was God’s formal declaration to humanity that we will never communicate with a distant King but a King who will ever enter into communion with us by the sacrifice of his own body.

Lent prepares our voices to join the chorus of the empty tomb. It’s a training season to sharpen our commitment to the justice of God in taking our sin and killing sin’s power. Lent pulls us into verbal union with the Word made flesh.

Prayer: Our Father, hallowed be your name! You do not leave us without your voice. You speak and we listen. You speak and life emerges. We give thanks for speaking into our lives by the power of the Spirit and guiding us daily by your word through Jesus Christ our Risen Lord, amen.

Hymn of the Day: Psalm 119G, Unto My the Word Remember

Notations

• I offer a summary of the Church Calendar.

• The Bible Project, which has produced some fairly decent material, has gone the way of all flesh by capitulating to the gay narrative. According to one of their own: "In Messiah Jesus, there is no male or female, no slave or free, no Jew or non-Jew, no gay or straight...just beautiful people..."

• Modern heresies allow the Church to commit itself to the doctrine of the Church with greater fervor. Recent debates have put the doctrine of the Second Coming of Jesus and all its cosmic implications as a secondary issue. It is the Church’s role to shout even louder that Jesus is Lord and all earth will receive him as the vindicated God/Man in bodily form.

For example, when the intolerable Eastern Orthodox modernist, David Bentley Hart, rejected the concept of a future resurrection, Brian Mattson rose to the challenge. He offered an excellent response in content and biblical exegesis. It’s worth the time for those who care deeply about this matter.

Nuntium

• These days have been exceedingly long here in Lancaster, PA, and they have been worth every second of laughter, drinking and eating, and teaching. Among those delights was seeing my dear friend, Sharon Strawbridge, and honoring her during our opening dinner for the Strawbridge Pastoral Forum 2024:

  

  I hope to come back and review this year’s forum which was exceptional and the numbers of attendees exceeded my expectations. We even allowed Canadians to join us (Eh?).

• The talented Kristina Roberts took some great photos of my talk in Moscow, ID, a couple of weeks ago:

Happy Lent!

Uriesou Brito