Pastor's Blog

The Scriptural account of the events that took place in Jerusalem nearly two thousand years ago on that original Good Friday presents us with an appalling scene, the most appalling scene the world has ever witnessed or ever will . It’s no wonder that it was cloaked in darkness and no wonder that the earth trembled.   Just a week before, as Jesus made his way triumphantly into Jerusalem, and the people were rejoicing and praising God and saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” “But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, rebuke your disciples.’ But Jesus answered, ‘I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” [1]   In other words, if man should withhold his praise, nature itself would find a way to express its joy!   How often do we read of such things in Scripture, where creation itself reacts or is called to react to what God or men have done? Psalm 44, for ...

W hen our iniquity had come to its full height, and it was clear beyond all mistaking that retribution in the form of punishment and death must be looked for, the hour arrived in which God had determined to make known from then onwards His loving-kindness and His power. How surpassing is the love and tenderness of God! in that hour, instead of hating us and rejecting us and remembering our wickednesses against us, He showed how long-suffering He is. He bore with us, and in pity He took our sins upon Himself and gave His own Son as a ransom for us - the Holy for the wicked, the Sinless for sinners, the Just for the unjust, the Incorrupt for the corrupt, the Immortal for the mortal. For was there, indeed, anything except His righteousness that could have availed to cover our sins? In whom could we, in our lawlessness and ungodliness, have been made holy, but in the Son of God alone? O sweet exchange! O unsearchable working! O benefits unhoped for! - that the wickedness of multitudes sho...