We want to linger just a moment over the second last thing Jesus said on the cross. John is the only one of the Gospel writers who records these words. It makes sense. John was an eye witness that day. Watching, waiting. He saw with his own eyes and heard with his own ears those words of Jesus, “It is finished!” But just what was finished?
The year: 1948. The place: Saskatchewan, Canada. A very unique example of a last will and testament. A man named Cecil George Harris was pinned beneath his tractor after an accident, and he managed to get out his pocket knife and carve a simple message into the fender of the tractor. The message read: “In case I die in this mess I leave all to the wife. Cecil Geo. Harris.”
Holy Week begins today. And one of the things we will notice as we read through the Gospel accounts of this week is the recurring theme of “king” and “kingdom.” In fact, you might say Holy Week paints a portrait of Jesus as King. For example, Jesus is painted as the JUDGING King in Matthew 25.
Pastor Peter Schlicht from Eastside Lutheran in Madison is preaching for our Wednesday Lent services.
Saul was “the man.” He was born in Tarsus of Cilicia to a Gentile mother and a Jewish father. His father was even a member of the respected party of the Pharisees. His father was also from the small, but very proud, tribe of Benjamin. In obedience to the Law of Moses, little Saul was circumcised dutifully and meticulously on the eighth day of his life. Not only was young Saul born a “Jew,” but he was raised as a “Hebrew.” He was taught, and spoke, the Aramaic language fluently.
Pastor Jacob Scott is leading this Wednesday’s Lent Worship. He serves at Zion Ev. Lutheran – Leeds.
They had caught him. They had cornered him. They had found him entangled in what they thought was a scandal. There was Jesus, the famed prophet from Galilee, and He was fraternizing with sinners. He was associating with tax collectors.
This evenings service is led by Pastor Scott Schwertfeger who is from Zion Evangelical Lutheran – Leeds.
Toward the end of last calendar year, the Pew Research Center surveyed nearly 6500 Americans and asked them, “In your own words, why do you think terrible things happen to people through no apparent fault of their own?” Here is a sampling of some of the responses.
This evenings service is led by Pastor James Plocher from St. John’s Lutheran in Pardeeville.
