by Rev. Dr. Fritz Ritsch
Maundy Thursday, 2014
John 19: 21-30
There is a plan.
The whole Gospel of John operates around it.
The Plan has existed from the beginning. The Plan shapes the direction of history. The Plan shaped and guided the life of Jesus.Read More »Maundy Thursday: “It Is Finished”
The Last Words of Jesus: “I Thirst”
John 19:16-20
Last week, one of our scriptures was a story from the Exodus. The Hebrews, having escaped slavery in Egypt, were now wandering in the desert, feeling lost and confused and suspicious of their leader Moses. They were thirsty. They demanded that Moses gives them water. Moses cries out in frustration to God, and God tells him to strike his staff on a stone. When he does, water pours out. The people have enough to drink. But Moses calls the place massah and meribah, because the people questioned, “Is God among us, or not?”Read More »“I Thirst”
