Suffering
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An Old Way For The New Year
So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”— John 19:5 Perhaps in this transition between the old year and the new, your reevaluations and your dreams have caused you to think about the meaning of things, even the meaning of your life. Let Continue reading
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A Movement Toward The Cross
I began to write and then begin to move… One thing I’ve learned in my studies: I’ve known more truth than I have been able to live, by quite a bit actually. Of course this raises the question that if you’re not able to live the truth do you really know it? For the kind Continue reading
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The Blessing No One Wants
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.— Matthew 5:11-12 Jesus is not saying you are blessed when someone reviles Continue reading
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Slaves, Priest, Kings of Blood
Christ has purchased us with his own blood. By paying the redemption price, to set us free from our slavery to sin, He has reconciled us to God. “You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.” (1 Cor. 7:23) Again it is said: “For you have been bought with a price: Continue reading
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Behold the Man!
“Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the Man!”— John 19:5 I’ll offer a selected passage below, from a church paper of 1899, as a devotional reading on the benefits of Christ’s humiliation and suffering for our redemption. I have found in my own Continue reading
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For Sasha / Sonya Sargent Hitchens
Dear Sasha….this will be my open reply to your blog. I write it here to share with others too. (You can read Sasha’s blog here.} Christmas blessings, again. Thank you for the mention in your blog today. I am thankful to have met you too. We share in spirit if not in all our interests. Continue reading
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From My Morning Reading….
A Bible text and passage on God’s purposes and presence in our sorrows, trials, and self-examination of the heart. Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that Continue reading
About Me
A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.
Crucified Hearts 