Mark D. Roberts

Permalink for this post My Blogging Monday: Is Easter a Ghost Story?Tuesday: Redesigned WebsiteWednesday: What is Easertide? Thursday: Eastertide: Fifty Days?Friday: Fifty Days of Easter: Some SuggestionsLinksHow a Christian Publisher Deals with Racism: Zondervan faces up to having recently published some racist materials. (HT: Scot McKnight)N.T. Wright on the Necessity of the Resurrection: The world’s…

Permalink for this post / Permalink for series – Easter: More Than Just a Day Note: This is an improved version of a post I wrote a couple of years ago. In my last post I began to answer the question of what we might do if we were to celebrate Easter for fifty days.…

Permalink for this post / Permalink for series – Easter: More Than Just a Day Note: This is an improved version of a post I wrote a couple of years ago. In my last post I shared my personal discovery of Eastertide, the fifty-day season of the Christian year set apart to celebrate that resurrection…

Permalink for this post / Permalink for series – Easter: More Than Just a Day Note: This is an improved version of a post I wrote a couple of years ago. As a child, I liked Easter. Dressing up in new clothes for church, singing joyful songs in worship, going to my grandparents’ house for…

Permalink for this post Today I’m launching my redesigned website. My hope is to make this site even friendlier and more functional for my readers (and bit friendlier for me too). Improvements: I’ve integrated WordPress software into my main site, which allows for the following improvements: • a clickable list of recent posts in the…

The first part of an Easter sermon called “Ghost Story” Permalink for the sermon I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with ghost stories. As a boy, a part of me wanted to hear about ghosts and monsters and the like just to prove how tough I was. Another part of me wanted to dive under…

Part 14 of series: The Stations of the Cross: A Devotional Guide for Lent and Holy Week Permalink for this post / Permalink for series Luke 23:50-54; Mark 16:1-4 Luke 23:50 Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph, who, though a member of the council, 51 had not agreed to their plan…

Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Part 13 of the series: The Stations of the Cross for Lent and Holy Week Luke 23:44-47 44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the…

  Part 12 of series: The Stations of the Cross for Lent and Holy Week Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series John 19:25-27 25 Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother…

Part 11 of the series: The Stations of the Cross for Lent and Holy Week Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Luke 23:39-43 39 One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, “Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him,…

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