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Good Friday has become one of my favorite days of the year. As I wrote earlier this week, I never went to a Good Friday service growing up. For the past 10 years, though, I have both attended and preached at Good Friday services. I love the opportunity to pause and reflect on the cross.Read more

People don’t really eat much in that galaxy far, far away. The Ewoks had a feast, at which our heroes were supposed to be the main course. Other than some blue milk, though, there aren’t a lot of meals in the Star Wars universe. Maundy Thursday is all about a meal, really the meal. OnRead more

Spy Wednesday is my favorite day in Holy Week. Spy Wednesday is all about Judas and his secret meeting with the Pharisees. Under the cover of night Judas met with the Pharisees and agreed to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Judas was upset over a lack of financial gain and selfishly sought hisRead more

It’s Holy Week! My church really didn’t do much with Holy Week when I was growing up. I never even attended a Good Friday service until I was in seminary. I still attend/work at a Baptist church, but we do have some liturgical tendencies. I look forward to our Good Friday service every year andRead more

On this week's episode of The Christian Nerd Podcast talk about the Samsung Galaxy S8, encouragement and Holy Week. Scott and Ron are back for another episode of The Christian Nerd Podcast. In Nerd News Ron gives his thoughts on the Galaxy S8 and they discuss what it would take to switch from the iPhone. In Sponsor they talk aboutRead more

On this week's shortened episode of The Christian Nerd Podcast we talk about Batman v Superman and what we learned from Lent. In Nerd News Scott and Ron talk about the reviews for Batman v Superman, even though neither of them have seen it. They break format a little bit, and simply share the lessons they learned through LentRead more