Passion Sunday
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. — Heb 14:6
The Wilderness and the Feast
Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up… - 2Chron 36:23
Driven to the Wilderness
The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. - Mark 1:11
Finding our Way (or, being found by it)
For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind. - John 9:39
Towards the Passion
The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. — Luke 20:19
The Indefatigable Nearness of God
The Lord is near to those who are brokenhearted and will save those who are crushed in spirit. — Psalm 34:18
Mercy for the Fruitless
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. — Ex 20:2
Tears over the City
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness.— Luke 13:34b
Into the Wilds
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness. — Luke 4:13
The Days are Coming …
“This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” — The Prophet Jeremiah (Jer 31:33)
Refreshment in the Wilderness
“Gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost.” — Jesus Christ, the Son of God (Jn 6:12)
Fascinated by the Law
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. — Ex 20:2
Foreshadowing the Cross
If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. — Jesus Christ, the Son of God (Mark 8:34)
Temptation of the Wilderness
Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison. — The Apostle Peter (1 Pe 3:18-19)