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M Y  God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?  (Psalm 22:1)   A ND  about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,  Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?    (Matthew 27:46)               The twenty-second Psalm is one of the most profound Messianic Psalms of the whole of that Book. It expresses, in the spirit of the prophets, the pains and anguish our Lord suffered on the cross in its first twenty-one verses. In Verses 22-31, the Psalm speaks of the resurrection glory our Lord felt at His moment of triumph over death and Hell.                Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ?  This phrase is among the seven last ‘words’ (exclamations) from the cross. They reveal an amazing endurance of our Lord for physical pain in His human manliness. The pain of the cross is so intense that it cannot be imagined – only experienced. It is a severe pain that is unrelenting. In

  A  MAN  that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.   ( Proverbs 18:24)   T HIS  is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.   13  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  14  Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.   15  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.  16  Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.  17  These things I command you, that ye love one another.   (John 15:12-17)                What a Friend we have in Jesus , is one of the simplest, but most beautiful, of all hymns of the latter days of hymnology. It is about

 Happy Palm Sunday! The AOC Sunday Report can be downloaded  RIGHT HERE ! We have great sermons today from Bishops Jerry and Roy, as well as Revs Jack and Bryan.  Each is really really great.  You can actually see and hear Rev Jack's sermon  RIGHT HERE ! There are always a lot of people who need your prayer, please start with Shamu, Jim and Laurie and work out from there. There is a truly epic week ahead, open your heart to the Holy Ghost and see the week! Godspeed, Hap Church of the Faithful Centurion Descanso, California United States of America Holy Week The Sunday next before Easter is commonly referred to as Palm Sunday.  The period between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday is often referred to as Holy Week.  Most churchgoing people go to church on Palm Sunday, then to church on Easter Sunday. It’s a fairly uplifting time with not a lot of thinking. On Palm Sunday Jesus makes his triumphant entry into Jerusalem. On Easter Sunday there’s the joyous resurrection. What’s not to like

The Sunday next before Easter, commonly called Palm Sunday. The Collect.   A LMIGHTY  and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility; Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord .   Amen.   ¶ This Collect is to be said every day, after the Collect appointed for the day, until Good Friday.                The lectionary text for Palm Sunday is too lengthy to cover in one presentation and covers four days of readings. Therefore, I will summarize the Gospel texts that give us enough to evoke a thirst for deeper study of this profoundly important week in the life (and death) of our Lord Jesus Christ.   That which we approach today in observing the impending crucifixion of Christ is the great m

This sermon is available as a  video  presentation  RIGHT HERE ! Sermon – Reverend Jack Arnold - Time and Action Church of the Faithful Centurion Descanso, California Today’s sermon brought the Collect, Epistle and Gospel together and is partly contained in the forewords above.    Consider these words from the Collect:   … thy Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility; Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection…   In the Collect, we acknowledge God sent His Son to be our Savior.  Think about that, the Creator, Lord and Master of the Universe sent His only Son to live amongst us and not just provide us with instruction and leadership, but to give His earthly life as a one time sacrifice for our sin that we might be accounted as perfect in our final accounting, the resurrection.  How much did God v