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List of articles on the Resurrection: Easter Articles
April 1, 1945
THE WAY OF GETHSEMANE By Lucy Hays Reynolds
...THE WAY OF GETHSEMANE ... at length, through surrender of human selfhood in the garden of Gethsemane, spiritual majesty, might, and dominion were demonstrated by the meekest but mightiest man who ever lived, even Christ Jesus ... -renunciation, gethsemane, easter, self righteousness, divine nature, self surrender, lent, good friday, facing abuse and rejection, utter despair, betrayed and slandered, domestic abuse...
April 7, 1980
JESUS' RESURRECTION—THE KEY TO OURS
By Dorothy E. Klein
...'s prayerful struggle in Gethsemane with the magnetism of the mortal is classic. Without Gethsemane there would have been no final resurrection and ascension. Jesus' struggle in the garden represented his final...
January 16, 2023
GRACE AND GLORY AT A TIME OF STRUGGLE
By Judith Hardy Olson
...” was of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. My first thought was, Where was any grace in that garden? Sheer agony, it was. Jesus’ sleeping disciples were no help at all. He sweated “as it were great...
By Ethel L. Sineath
...Jesus' example in the garden of Gethsemane pointed the way of resurrection and ascension for all mankind. His momentous struggle was not to avoid a difficult human situation, for he said (Matt. 26...
April 2, 2015
By Judy Cole
...Lessons from Gethsemane ... Judy shares three lessons she learned from the Bible account of Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane before his crucifixion and the transforming effects they have had on her life. ... forgiveness, alone, malchus, gethsemane, crucifixion, revenge, forsaken, betrayed, unrequited love, putting it on record, abandonment, shamelessness, ingratitude...
By Gertrude Deane Houk
...GETHSEMANE ... On that portentous night in far Gethsemane Not one was found to watch and pray with thee. Oh, fatal lethargy of false, material sense That could not give this single evidence Of love and loyalty...
April 1, 1997
THE TRANSFIGURATION AND THE DEFEAT OF HUMAN WILL
By Channing Walker
...earlier contains Jesus' words "Not my will, but thine, be done."Luke 22:42. Interestingly, Jesus did not say this in the brightness of the transfiguration. He said it during the lonely night in Gethsemane...
By Eugene W. Moss
...centuries ago in the Garden of Gethsemane when Jesus, knowing that he had been betrayed by Judas, called him "Friend." Matt. 26:50; If Jesus had been bitter, if he had been resentful, he would never have been...
April 29, 1950
By Katherine S. Whitney
...In Gethsemane, at his hour of greatest need, Jesus asked his disciples to watch with him while he prayed. Three times "he went a little farther" to pray, but each time on returning found the...
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