Only His Wounds Can Heal

It’s Silent Saturday. The day before we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.

I’m not asking a question as I normally do in this post, but I’m also not being silent today.

I sit down at my desk to write and the legs of a chair that’s been headed for the junk pile for months now kick out in front of me. I gather it up and calmly set it by the door. By the time I get back to my seat, I’ve had time to ruminate on the other things that have…

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Beyond the Nativity, A Four Week Devotional on the Incarnation, Week 4: The Importance & Rewards, Day 1: It Confirms the Resurrection

Lippi, Fra Filippo, Nativity,1467-69

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Acts 2:24-32

“24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. 25 For David says concerning him,

“‘I saw the Lord always before me,
for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;
26 therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;
my flesh also will dwell in hope.
27 For you will not abandon my soul to Hades,
or let your Holy One see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the…

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Beyond the Nativity, A Four Week Devotional on the Incarnation, Week 3: The Manifestation, Day 5: Burial and Resurrection

Lotto, Lorenzo, Nativity, 1523

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Matthew 27:59-60

59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.

John 20:11-16

15 Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him,…

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