Show Don't Tell: Mark 15:33-41
Vivid sensory description for preaching Mark 15:33-41
This is a show dont tell prompt.
Instead of saying "Jesus died on the cross," feel the darkness fall. At noon, darkness comes over the whole land until three in the afternoon. Three hours of midday darkness. At three, Jesus cries out in a loud voice: "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" —"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" The opening of Psalm 22, prayed in agony.…
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