In observance of Holy Week, I have decided to use this space to offer a devotional series that I have prepared and which I have entitled:
THE CLIMB TO CALVARY
Meditations on The Seven Last Words of Christ
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MONDAY: The First Words
“Then said Jesus, ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’ And they parted his raiment, and cast lots” (Luke 23:34).
In some ways, at least from a worldly perspective, these first recorded words spoken by Jesus on the cross are the most startling of all seven of His final statements captured in the Gospels.