My only experience with caissons is in the logistics of death. I’ve walked behind caissons at Arlington Cemetery, as the body rolls to its resting place. These committals have taps, and guns, and an officer with a folded flag. Other burials have just a few people, grieving alone while the madding crowd continues its frenzy, oblivious to their doom.
It’s there, at the graveyard, where you really wonder what’s true….
Read MoreOn Friday, the weeping women heard His last words.
“It is finished,” Jesus said, and they believed Him. It’s all over.
You’ve heard those words. “We’re finished!”
What’s finished is over. Done. Dead.
“It is finished,” Jesus said. They believed Him.
The priests win. Rome wins. Death wins….
Read More“Your boasting is not good.” So opens today’s Epistle. Boasting—or pride—is the fundamental human problem. So we must be told, even on Easter, “Your boasting is not good.” The broader context is a scandal in the Corinthian church. But the problem of pride, of boasting, is universal….
Read MoreEaster is about a risen body. If that isn’t true, then everything really is meaningless. But the words, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”, those words were spoken to people who then saw the Lord Jesus risen in His body….
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