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    With My Eyes On Jesus: Lenten Meditations on the Dying Jesus
    With My Eyes On Jesus: Lenten Meditations on the Dying Jesus
    With My Eyes On Jesus: Lenten Meditations on the Dying Jesus
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    With My Eyes On Jesus: Lenten Meditations on the Dying Jesus

    By Dale Goldsmith

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    Jesus invited his disciples to be with him in Gethsemane as he struggled with his own hour of death. These Lenten devotions are intended to help us do just that: to be with Jesus in his hour(s) facing dying--not just as observers, but as fellow mortals, with all of our own fears and anxieties.

    The daily exposure and interaction with texts of Scripture related to Jesus' own dying will bring the reader into close interaction with Jesus and biblical sources of promise and hope. Through these devotionals, you and Jesus will be together in that place that you most intimately and equally share: dying. But it will be an encounter of hope, not despair; joy, not grief; vision, not disillusion.

    Lent is a time to know Jesus better. And perhaps to know ourselves better in the process. This disciplined pilgrimage begins with Jesus' life and takes us through his death and the stunning implications of that death for each of us. This is a profoundly human story of the human Jesus, living and dying to help us live our lives in fuller knowledge of who we are and who he is.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateSep 12, 2018
    ISBN9781532637773
    With My Eyes On Jesus: Lenten Meditations on the Dying Jesus
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    Dale Goldsmith

    Dale Goldsmith is an ordained Presbyterian minister and received his MA and PhD in New Testament studies from the University of Chicago. He taught college students for many years and was also an academic dean. He and his wife Katy (also a college professor) have four children and five grandchildren for whom this book was originally conceived. Goldsmith is also the author of New Testament Ethics (1988) and, in conjunction with Dr. Fred Craddock and daughter Dr. Joy Goldsmith, Speaking of Dying: Recovering the Church's Voice in the Face of Death (2012).

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      With My Eyes On Jesus - Dale Goldsmith

      Day 2, Thursday—Early Opposition

      Matthew 2:16: When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men.

      Context: King Herod the Great, supported by Rome to keep the peace in Jewish territory, was in no mood to allow the newborn king of the Jews to get in line for the throne. To eliminate the competition, he resorted to a scorched-earth slaughter of babies. Joseph, Jesus’ father, was warned about the danger in a dream, and escaped with Jesus to Egypt.

      Meditation: Babies are vulnerable: SIDS, genetic malformations, colds that turn fatal, domestic accidents, famine, war—we have seen and read about all these disasters and more, and we know they are real. Jesus began his human experience in a vulnerable way and at a bad time: as a baby and in the midst of political turmoil.

      This is an ugly story, full of unconscionable violence, motivated by corruption, oppression, selfishness, and deceit. It’s the kind of story we still hear. Every day. The gospel reporting on the beginning of Jesus’ mission should include the now familiar warning—"viewer discretion is

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