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HIS HOUR HAD COME By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  04/07/23 “It is finished” (John 19:30). How many times in the Gospel of John does Jesus talk about His hour? He regularly said, “My hour has not yet come,” or, “The hour is coming.” It was as if... Read More →

HE TRUSTED GOD WITH HIS SPIRIT By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  04/06/23 As Jesus nears the end of His agony, we meditate on the sixth statement from the cross: “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit” (Luke 23:46). This cry was not the cry of defeat, but the cry of... Read More →

AN AGONIZING CRY FROM THE CROSS By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  04/05/23 “Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, ‘I am thirsty'” (John 19:28). This cry, the fifth statement from the cross, was a cry... Read More →

WE ARE FORGIVEN, HE WAS FORSAKEN By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  04/04/23 “About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ (which means ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’)” (Matthew 27:46). This... Read More →

CLOSE TO JESUS By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  04/03/23 “Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her,... Read More →