3 Things God Calls Us To Do Today Love Him with all of our hearts. ( Matt 22:37) a. How do I love God with all of my heart, soul, and mind today? Love our neighbors as ourselves (Matt 22:39) a. How do I love my neighbor as much as I love myself? ... Make disciples of all nations. ( Matt 28:19)
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Read More »Maybe you feel like I do….all the emotions, all the thoughts, all the questions. It’s easy to feel out of control and begin to vacillate between hopefulness and hopelessness within any given hour. This season is hard. We are not in control and we are being reminded of that. Lately I’ve been looking to my phone for hope rather than a Sovereign God who knows what’s going on today, tomorrow, and a year from now. Our God gives permission for this kind of warfare with the promise that He will use it for good for those who love Him (Romans 8:28). The other day I was talking to a mentor of mine and shared my heart with him. My concerns, my questions, my fears of the future of our country and our world. I was overwhelmed with being overwhelmed.
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Read More »What did Jesus eat on a typical day? The short answer: a lot of bread. Bread was a staple in the typical daily diet in the first-century Greco-Roman world, supplemented with limited amounts of local fruits and vegetables, oil, and salt. Bread in first-century Galilee would have been made with wheat or barley flour.
The gospel accounts tell us that Jesus and his disciples ate bread and drank wine at the Last Supper. However, bread and wine probably weren’t the only things on the table. The Last Supper may have been a Passover meal. Passover is when Jews remember their exodus from Egypt. The gospels of Mark, Luke, and Matthew place the meal during the Jewish Passover on the day of Unleavened Bread.* This is the first day of the seven-day Passover celebration. On this day, Jews traditionally traveled to the temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice a Passover lamb. Today, this day of Passover is celebrated in Judaism with the Seder supper. The modern Seder tradition didn’t emerge until the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D., but Jews in Jesus’s time did share in a Passover meal after making their temple sacrifice. It wouldn’t have looked like a modern Seder, and the historical record of the Passover meal before the Seder tradition is less detailed. But we do know that the Passover meal would have included unleavened bread and likely a roast lamb. So if the Last Supper was a Passover meal, we can probably place those two foods on the table. For a fuller menu, we have to do a bit of guesswork. But in 2016, two Italian archaeologists published a study on what was eaten at the Last Supper that included a reconstructed menu. The two archaeologists drew from Bible verses, Jewish texts, ancient Roman literature, and archaeological data to learn about what people ate in Jerusalem during the first century A.D. Based on their research, they hypothesized that the menu for the Last Supper would have featured bean stew, lamb, bitter herbs, fish sauce, unleavened bread, dates, and aromatized wine.
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