March 18, 2026
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Reading along with us in our Lenten readings from “The Life of Jesus”? Here’s today’s reading:
Lent 2026 – Day 15 in the Book: “The Life of Jesus“
The Week Jesus Dies
Read Sections 5.27 through 5.30 (pages 159-161)
This book is an account of Jesus’ life and teachings told in chronological order from the four Gospels to create one continuous story.
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What a thing not to be familiar with, a new covenant made with the God of the heavens through the broken body and shed blood of Jesus. How significant this would be for a group of Jewish men who were well aware of the covenant established through circumcision. And God never enters covenants lightly and makes clear what He provides and what He requires in them. He provides Jesus and we provide faith, and the Christian life unfolds from that in all the provisions of grace from God and right choices coming from us. And with all that had happened on this night, the disciples argue about who is greatest? That is not how they or we are meant to think. Service should be the model for our lives and our leadership. And a new command sounds like an old command with a new emphasis. Now the love that we have is based in Jesus and all that He makes us. So it is an old command with new power as well. And just imagine being Peter and hearing this from a master who has never been wrong. But Peter also knows where he is in that moment and how he would never do what Jesus is saying. But for the grace of God, there go I.
Lent 2026 – Day 15
Day 14 & 15
Pastor, it’s a ponderous thing to say here’s bread, it’s my body, this wine, my blood, eat and drink of it. Used to trip me up as a Catholic, because in my ignorance it felt like an aspirin for sin. Good to go for a week, never giving much mind to how I lived or behaved, just carried on living. Always pressed in my mind, In Remberance of Me, carved into the altar. So God said we live by every Word of God, as though it was more vital than bread for life, very hard to conceive. On this side of salvation, now I know that we need a bread not made by hands, but I need sustenance from the truth of God’s Word. This passage isn’t really about this, it’s about having an agreement with Jesus and having it an integral part of me. So I agree with all that you said, and has been said at living hope during the Lord’s Supper. But I must confess, the depth of this last supper is way beyond my understanding.
Psalm 91; Jeremiah 48; The Life of Jesus 5.27-5.30
Lent 2026, day 15
The disciples forgot Jesus’ teaching when they argued about who was greatest when he said “the greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” Let us humble ourselves and go about the business of serving the Lord. That is what is most important, not if we will be great but if we will have joy in hearing the Lord say “‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
Lent Day 15
The last supper, we remember it through communion but should never let it become just a tradition or too familiar to us. We are remembering a sacrifice so great, so overwhelming and yet it still requires rememberance. I feel like if someone jumped in front of a bullet for me, I would never need a monthly tradition to remember that event and remember to thank them for it. Yet that is what happened, Jesus took the death we were owed to spare us and we become comfortable with the idea and even at times take it for granted. That is why we pick up our cross, we serve others, love other, and know that the greatest will become the least following His example!
Day 15