Teaching Tuesday 37“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God’s messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me. 38And now, look, your house is abandoned and desolate. 39For I tell you this, you will … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

Flippin Tables 15When they arrived back in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people buying and selling animals for sacrifices. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, 16and he stopped everyone from using the Temple as a marketplace. 17He said to … More Common Sense REBORN Devotional

Hosanna! Hosanna! 12The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A large crowd of Passover visitors 13took palm branches and went down the road to meet him. They shouted, “Hosanna! Hosanna! Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hail to the … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

Remembering Auschwitz Part 4-A Final Note (Auschwitz) had never seen a killing spree like it, with over 320,000 murdered in less than eight weeks; indeed, for sustained killing within the Nazi state the only comparable event was the scale of the initial murders in Treblinka, which resulted in the sacking of Dr. Eberl. (Auschwitz: A … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

The Prayer of Saint Patrick May the Strength of God pilot us. May the Power of God preserve us. May the Wisdom of God instruct us. May the Hand of God protect us. May the Way of God direct us. May the Shield of God defend us. May the Host of God guard us Against … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

Remembering Auschwitz Part 3 (Rudolph) Hoess attended the next gassings in Block 11: ‘Protected by a gas mask, I watched the killing myself. In the crowded cells death came instantaneously the moment the Zyklon B was thrown in. A short, almost smothered cry and it was all over.’ (Rees, Laurence. “Auschwitz: A New History” 2005, … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

Remembering Auschwitz Part 2 ‘Until 1933 it was a very nice comfortable life,’ (Lucille Eichengreen) says. ‘But once Hitler came to power, the children that lived in the same building no longer spoke to us; they threw stones at us and called us names.’ (Rees, Lawrence. “Auschwitz: A New History” 2005, pg 38) As I … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

Remembering Auschwitz Part 1 The war against the Soviet Union, begun in June that year (1941), precipitated the most radical solution yet seen to the Nazi’s self-created ‘Jewish Problem’: the destruction of Soviet Jewry by the shooting of men, women and children. (Rees, Lawrence. “Auschwitz: A New History” 2005, pg 92) I have finished reading … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

Hope 8“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty…”. (Revelation 4:8) I know in my last post, I mentioned that I would start sharing what I have been learning while reading Auschwitz: A New History. It has put me in a very dark place. And I will be taking us all there soon, but … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

Calamity Coming 38Does not the Most High send both calamity and good? 39Then why should we, mere humans, complain when we are punished for our sins? (Lamentations 3:38-39) I am currently reading Auschwitz: A New History. It is a gut-wrenching, eye-opening, thoroughly researched exploration into one of the darkest periods of humanity. I wish I … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion