by Ed Noble | Apr 13, 2010 | Leadership, Spiritual life, Theology, Weekends |
The weekend after Easter is always an interesting weekend at a church. Our peeps did such a stellar job on the whole invite thing that Easter was packed and a bit out of control. Since we’ve consciously decided to basically do a buffed out version of a normal weekend...
by Ed Noble | Apr 10, 2010 | Spiritual life, Theology, Weekends |
I know Easter was last weekend (unless you are Orthodox), but thanks to my buddy Marko’s blog (click here for his great blog) I ran into Rob’s 4 minute Resurrection “teaching”. It’s like a preaching music poetry recital video. So cool. We...
by Ed Noble | Apr 2, 2010 | Spiritual life, Theology, Weekends |
I’ve always found it ironic that this day is called “Good” Friday. There are other names for it, but I think “Good Friday” is perfect… and ironic. From the point of view of the first group of people who had placed their faith in Jesus, there was nothing GOOD about...
by Ed Noble | Mar 31, 2010 | Spiritual life, Theology, Weekends |
This day of Holy Week has a name that has focused our attention for centuries: Maundy Thursday. The name comes from the Latin word “mandatum” which means, “command.” Those of you that speak Spanish know that when you aren’t sure what someone said, “mande?” is a polite...
by Ed Noble | Mar 31, 2010 | Spiritual life, Weekends |
I just read this on Sacred Spaces. I love the perspective. Something to think and pray about this week Holy Week is unlike any other week in the Church’s year. It begins with the illusory triumph of Palm Sunday, when Jesus is hailed as a celebrity in his own...
by Ed Noble | Mar 30, 2010 | Spiritual life, Weekends |
Sometime after the 1st Palm Sunday, on either Tuesday or Wednesday, one of the 12, Judas, finalized his decision and made the arrangements to betray Jesus into the hands of the Jewish religious leaders. This is one of those parts of the story that we have a hard time...
