Holy Saturday Craft

Holy Saturday Devotion

Can you imagine how the disciples felt on this day?   They had watched their teacher come into the city and people waving palms showing Hosanna.  And now here they sat in a room hiding from the same people who welcome them with open arms.   These disciples had heard Jesus talk about His death.  They watched Him break bread in front of them.  They even experienced Jesus washing their feet.  But as they slept and Jesus prayed their worlds crashed down around them.  One of their own brothers gave the teacher a kiss.  Chaos was all around them.  Arrested.  Jesus tied up and taken away.  But not before awing the crowd with another miracle of putting an ear back on a man.  Today the sit reliving the next few hours like the were right then.  Trials... Pilot washing his hands of it ... beaten almost to death... crown of thorns... mocking and yelling at Him.   The disciples hear the sounds of the cross falling on the Via Dolorosa.  The sight of blood must have made them uncomfortable and hearing Him scream in agony would have made their hair stand on end.  Here they sit, the day after they heard Him say "It is finished."  It is the day in the tomb.  They didn't know what was going to happen like we do.  The disciples, didn't remember the promise their Savior made.  All they knew on this day was that Jesus is dead.  The headline would read "Crazy Man Killed on Cross." News spread fast and the disciples sat in fear, anxiety, depression setting in, and planning to finish the burial process of the man they called rabbi.

Good Friday Devotional

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Lent Craft

Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday is an alternate name for Holy Thursday, the first of the three days of solemn remembrance of the events leading up to and immediately following the crucifixion of Jesus. The English word "Maundy" comes from the Latin mandatum, which means "commandment." As recorded in John's gospel, on his last night before his betrayal and arrest, Jesus washed the feet of his disciples and then gave them a new commandment to love one another as he had loved them (John 13:34). This is why services on this night generally include the washing of feet or other acts of physical care as an integral part of the celebration.

While John's gospel does not record the institution of the Lord's Supper among the events of this night, the other gospels do. Christians therefore keep this night with celebrations both at the basin (footwashing) and at the Lord's Table (Holy Communion).

http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/what-is-maundy-thursday

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In the Garden with Jesus

When Jesus was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, knowing the fate that awaited him, knowing full well that he would be crucified in just a few hours, he prayed.  Wouldn't you, in his situation?  He poured out his burdened heart to his heavenly Father.  But he wasn't just begging for comfort, as many of us would be apt to do.  He wasn't asking for a loophole.  He wasn't even asking for one last earthly joy.  He was praying for the people who would be the reason for his suffering.  And he was able to tell God, "I glorified you on earth, have accomplished the work you gave me to do."
Can we tell God the same thing???

God, please show me the work you want me to do.  Help me to be able to accomplish this work without complaint or looking for loopholes.