“Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit” (Luke 23:46). The text of a new little hymn appears below. A tune has been written for it by Bonnie Rex. I wrote the text in the days following Good Friday. The text for my Good Friday sermon was Luke 23:46, the seventh and final word from […]
“My Spirit, Father, I Commend” is a three-stanza hymn based on Luke 23:46, the very last words of Jesus: “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” The stanzas meditate on this prayer in the following three ways. [For the text of the hymn see last week’s devotion.] Stanza 1 – As Christ’s dying prayer […]
“He restoreth my soul” (Ps. 23:3). True story! I’ll tell it just as it happened. After church on Sunday and before visiting the nursing home, I stopped for a bite to eat at the Wagon Wheel. Sitting down at the counter I asked about the specials. I decided on the fish with baked potato, veggies, […]
Listen carefully to two Bible verses both of which date back to that first Maundy Thursday. There’s something that connects them. See if you can hear it: “In the same way also He took the cup, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new testament in My blood'” (1 Cor. 11:25). “‘A new commandment I […]
“I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign” (Gen. 9:13). Sunday evening, March 25, several dozen Christians from various denominations gathered near an abortion clinic to pray. It had been raining since afternoon. I considered how the weather would probably keep people from coming. Then, just minutes before the […]
“But the fruit of the Spirit is…self-control” (Gal. 5:22-23). A father urged his children to move beyond giving up candy for Lent to giving up some habit of sin. About halfway through the season he asked the children how they were doing. One of his young sons had promised to give up fighting with his […]