Holy Week 2022: Good Friday And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away …
Holy Week 2022: Maundy Thursday
Holy Week 2022: Maundy Thursday Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s …
Holy Week 2022: Wednesday
Holy Week 2022: Wednesday When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, …
Holy Week 2022: Tuesday
Holy Week 2022: Tuesday Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who …
Holy Week 2022: Monday
Holy Week 2022: Monday On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, …
Holy Week 2022: Palm Sunday
Holy Week 2022: Palm Sunday Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says …
Holy Week 2022: Introduction
Holy Week 2022: Introduction At Christ Community, we often say that every Sunday is Resurrection Sunday. This is true. Each Sunday we gather to celebrate the fact that Jesus died, was buried, and then walked out of the grave alive. But in another sense, the Sunday we call Easter is special. On that day, we are careful to remember the …
December 31 – Malachi 1-4, Revelation 22:6-21, Psalm 150, Proverbs 31:10-31
Malachi 1-4 1 The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. The Lord’s Love for Israel 2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” 4 If Edom says, …
December 30 – Zechariah 12-14, Revelation 21:1-22:5, Psalm 149, Proverbs 31:8-9
Zechariah 12-14 The Lord Will Give Salvation 12 The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: 2 “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. 3 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone …
December 29 – Zechariah 10-11, Revelation 20, Psalm 148, Proverbs 31:1-7
Zechariah 10-11 The Restoration for Judah and Israel 10 Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain,from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.2 For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies;they tell false dreams and give empty consolation.Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. 3 “My anger is …