Category: The Cross


  • Shelter

    Shelter

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    The rural crossroad is only a mile long. Yet two tornados struck this road in one day. I have never  seen separate tornados hit the same spot within a matter of hours. Yet here we were.  We responded after the first tornado destroyed a mobile home. While we checked for victims, another tornado arrived. After…

  • The Cross

    The Cross

    Friday is the day the sin debt was paid. Soldiers led Jesus to the place of crucifixion. They nailed Him to a wooden cross as a public display of Rome’s wrath. God, however, was working out something much bigger. This was planned “before the foundation of the world.” (Ephesians 1:4) Seven hundred years before the…

  • The Cup

    The Cup

    It’s Thursday. Jesus ate His final Passover meal with His followers. When He broke the matzoh, the unleavened bread, He said, “This is My body which is given for you…” Then He lifted a cup, choosing the third cup of the Passover Seder, called the Redemption Cup. He said, “This cup that is poured out…

  • Covered

    Covered

    “Why must they all be naked?” I thought. Dispatch gave out a call involving a large, muscular man standing naked in a busy roadway threatening motorists. He was covered in his own blood and suffering a drug-induced mental health crisis. Law enforcement responded to remove him from the road, restrain him, and get him the…

  • The Cost

    The Cost

    People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. (Orwell) One morning in 2018, I walked into the patrol office and saw a deputy’s ballistic vest lying in a chair. The outer carrier was covered in mud. The vest told the story of the…