Lael ArringtonTen things you might thank Jesus for this Easter Weekend – Lael Arrington https://laelarrington.com Faith and Culture: Live Wisely Love Well Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 73081510 Ten things you might thank Jesus for this Easter Weekend https://laelarrington.com/2015/04/ten-things-you-might-thank-jesus-for-this-easter-weekend/ https://laelarrington.com/2015/04/ten-things-you-might-thank-jesus-for-this-easter-weekend/#respond Sat, 04 Apr 2015 19:06:26 +0000 admin http://laelarrington.com/?p=946 Lent, Triumphal Entry…days teaching and healing in the temple, final words to his disciples, crucifixion and today…resurrection. In this season of reflection and entering into the story of how Jesus loved, died and lives again I close my Bible and whisper…this is exactly who I want my God to be. From my thanksgiving journal…Thank you Jesus that…

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…you ride into town… the king on a donkey… the lion-like lamb

…you throw the money changers out of the temple..the lamb-like lion

…you challenge the chief priests, scribes and elders with such courage–in the temple day after day, healing and teaching and disputing with them  in what they think is their house. Telling the Sadducees to their faces, “You are quite wrong.” Always respectful. Always brilliant. Again and again they challenge you and fall quiet at your knowledge of truth and Scripture and your ability to intellectually thrust and parry.

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