April 28 - May 4, 2013

Lord Jesus, thank you for willingly choosing to suffer the physical pain of the cross, and the emotional and spiritual pain of having Your loving Father turn away from You as You took our sin onto yourself and paid for our salvation. Lord You did all this out of obedience to your Father and for our benefit, to His Glory. Lord I rejoice in your resurrection knowing that as You were raised, one day I too will be raised to spend and enjoy life with You eternally. This I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen

“Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”
Luke 24:26

Week of April 8 -14, 2012

Lord Jesus, be with us now during this festive Resurrection season. During your whole life You went about trying to transform the hardness of people’s hearts by Your love and concern for them, and by showing them how to go about loving others. There are times when we have become hard-hearted, unloving, selfish. Lord, give us compassionate hearts. Touch our lives with Your redeeming love. Let us be Easter people, and let “Alleluia” be our song. We ask this in Your holy name. Amen.

"Jesus said to his disciples, 'Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from
the dead on the third day, and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached
in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.'”

(Luke 24:46-48, Jerusalem)