by chrisgoins | Apr 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Sunday is a day of feasting + celebration since Jesus rose on a Sunday. Take today to catch up on your reading + to contemplate what you’ve read so far.
by chrisgoins | Apr 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
At least five supernatural miracles occurred as Jesus died. • The sky turned black at noon. (Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:33) The day Jesus died, at the moment the sun should have been the brightest, a dark gloom filled the sky + fell over the land, lasting...
by chrisgoins | Apr 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Crucifixion was death by exhaustion, shock, asphyxiation or suffocation. During crucifixion, the stress on the muscles in the diaphragm put the chest into the inhaled position. In order to exhale, the crucified person had to push up on his feet so that...
by chrisgoins | Apr 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
By 9 a.m. on Friday, Jesus was hanging on the cross suspended between heaven + earth, as though unworthy of both. Historians indicate that while hanging on the cross, naked + with their body in shock, most victims would lose control of their bodily functions,...
by chrisgoins | Apr 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Romans didn’t invent crucifixion, but they had perfected it as a form of torture + capital punishment. By the time of Jesus, it had become the favorite method of execution throughout the empire. In fact, the Jewish historian Josephus indicates that Titus crucified...
