April 4, 2020

• Pastor Doug
• All 2020 Sermons
• Long Walk to Easter Sermon Series 2020
• Crucifixion
• Forgiveness
• Prophecy

Crucifixion was a barbaric form of capital punishment that began in Persia.  The Persians believed the earth was sacred, so death could not be allowed to come in contact with, and contaminate the earth.  Therefore, criminals were fastened to horizontal beams of wood by iron spikes and suspended above the earth to die from exposure, exhaustion and suffocation.  Death was painfully slow and publicly humiliating. 

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March 28, 2020

• Pastor Doug
• All 2020 Sermons
• Long Walk to Easter Sermon Series 2020
• Crucifixion
• Jesus' Torture
• Scourging
• Timeline

John 19:16 says: “Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.” (NIV)  That’s a very simple sentence isn’t it?  Ten Words.  But it holds so much information the world needs.  It reminded me of a verse in the Old Testament.  Genesis 1:16 says:  “He also made the stars.” (NIV)  How many stars are there?  And they get only five words in the creation story.

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