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Mark D. Roberts

I’ve been asked by the folks at Vintage 21, a church in Raleigh, North Carolina, to put in a good word for their upcoming conference: Advance: Resurgence of the Local Church. Here’s their vision for the conference: Christ promises to build the Church, and that no force will prevail against it. Yet, the local church…

Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! Yes, I know Easter Sunday was yesterday. But, for Christians throughout the world, Easter is not just a day, but a 50-day season, beginning with Easter Sunday and continuing to Pentecost. So today I continue my reflections on Easter. If you’re looking for what I’ve written before on…

Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! So Christians have proclaimed for centuries on Easter morning, as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. (Photo: A painting of the resurrection of Christ by Matthias Grünewald, c. 1515. I changed the shape a bit to fit this space. This was originally an altarpiece for the Monastery of…

Copyright © Linda Roberts, 2007. For permission to use this picture, please contact Mark D. Roberts 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 and action. He came from the Jewish town of…

Copyright © Linda Roberts, 2007. For permission to use this picture, please contact Mark D. Roberts 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 sunâ??s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.  46 Then Jesus,…

Copyright © Linda Roberts, 2007. For permission to use this picture, please contact Mark D. Roberts 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 and the disciple whom he loved standing beside…

Copyright © Linda Roberts, 2007. For permission to use this picture and/or others in this series, please contact Mark D. Roberts 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, saying, “Do you…

Copyright © Linda Roberts, 2007. For permission to use this picture and/or others in this series, please contact Mark D. Roberts Luke 23:33-4, 47 23:33 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said,…

Copyright © Linda Roberts, 2007. For permission to use this picture and/or others in this series, please contact Mark D. Roberts Luke 23:27-31 27 A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him. 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters…

Copyright © Linda Roberts, 2007. For permission to use this picture and/or others in this series, please contact Mark D. Roberts Luke 23:26 As they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus.…
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