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"The Son of David is the answer to every one of David's cries" Good Friday Tenebrae 2026

John lays the old story of David over the Passion like one transparency laid on another, so that you see the pattern. The parallels are deliberate. Absalom gathered Israel against its rightful king, stealing the hearts of the people. The chief priests and the Pharisees did the same — they turned the crowds against the One whom the Father had anointed. Absalom's rebellion was the rebellion of a son against his father. The Passion is the rebellion of the creature against the Creator, of the children of Israel against the God who had carried them out of Egypt in His arms.

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"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!" Good Friday Chief Service 2026

You are here this afternoon because the Holy Spirit has not finished building. He still calls by the Gospel. He still places stones. The cornerstone holds. The building rises. The Church endures — not by your effort, not by any human strategy, not by the wisdom of her architects — but by the blood of the Lamb laid into the earth's foundation, and raised again on the third day.

"God comes all the way down, down to the floor, down to the cross" Holy Thursday 2026

God is Most High. His eyes look down. He sees what you are — the poverty, the squalor, the weight of it all. He sees it, and He does not look away. He comes down. He comes all the way down, down to the floor, down to the cross, down to this altar. The Most High becomes the Most Low so that the lowly might be raised to the Most High.

"I looked, but there was no one to help" Holy Wednesday 2026

"No One to Help” Isaiah saw it before it happened. Many centuries before Calvary, he asked the question that hangs over everything you have heard this morning: "I looked, but there was no one to help, and I wondered that there was no one to uphold." Look through the Passion, and you will see that he was right. There was no one.

"The righteous Man is inconvenient to us" Holy Tuesday 2026

"Let us lie in wait for the righteous Man, because He is inconvenient to us." That is the voice of the conspirators in Wisdom, and it is an honest confession. They are not pretending to be virtuous. They know exactly what they are doing and why. The righteous Man is inconvenient. He reproaches their sins. His manner of life is unlike theirs. The very sight of Him is a burden. So they have made up their minds: He must go.

That Scary Book Isn't So Scary

The blessing of reading and knowing Revelation

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"Zechariah saw it all. Isaiah saw it all!" Holy Monday 2026

Jesus did not stumble into the Passion. He was not simply a good man who ran afoul of powerful enemies. He is the eternal Son of God who became flesh for the express purpose of offering that flesh to be broken. The Zechariah cento your ears received this morning is a mosaic of prophetic fragments, and together they tell the whole story of the week before it unfolds: the King riding in lowly; thirty pieces of silver weighed out; the shepherd struck; the sheep scattered; darkness at midday; living water flowing from the city. Zechariah saw it all. Isaiah saw it all. The thread running through every prophet points to this one Man, this one week, this one death.

"Given for you. Given to you. Full of His forgiveness!" Palm Sunday 2026

This is what the church does when she reads the Passion over you. She declares it. The Word does what it says. It puts you under the torn curtain, in the company of the saints who walked out of their graves, in the place of Barabbas. This is not a report on something that happened long ago to someone else. It is a delivery—to you, this morning, in this place.

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"You do not believe, because you are not of My sheep" Wednesday of Judica 2026

The cross is coming. You can feel it gathering through these weeks. Every story this season — the plotting, the stones, the thickening opposition — it is all converging on Jerusalem, converging on one man walking steadily toward it. No one takes His life from Him. He lays it down. For sheep who wander. For sheep who sleep in Gethsemane. For sheep who deny three times before the rooster finishes crowing. For you.

"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad" Judica 2026

And His blood does what the blood of bulls and goats could never do. It does not merely cover. It cleanses. It reaches the conscience. It purifies from dead works. It makes you clean, not in a ritual sense that wears off, but before God, forever. This sacrifice is offered once for all. It is not repeated because it does not need to be repeated. It is finished. He said so.

Thoughts & Connections: Jericho’s Curse

“Nostr Clients Are Enough”

Nostr clients are powerful — especially for discovery and interaction. But they are not designed for ownership, authoring, or long-term control. This article explores why clients are essential, but not sufficient, and what changes when you separate discovery from creation.

Writing Isn’t Publishing

Most modern systems collapse writing and publishing into a single action. This creates hidden pressure and limits how ideas develop. This article explores why separating authoring from distribution matters — and how local-first systems restore a healthier way to think, write, and share.

You Shouldn’t Need the Internet to Think

Most modern tools assume constant connectivity. If the network is down, the system stops working. This article explores how that assumption quietly reshapes how we create, think, and work — and why local-first systems restore something deeper than just offline access.

You Don’t Own Your Account

Most people believe they “own” their accounts, data, and identity online. In reality, they have access — not ownership. This article explores how small, everyday failures (like password resets and lockouts) reveal a deeper architectural problem, and why local-first systems change that foundation.