New Zealand Conservative

First Monday of the school holidays and immediately a cold, wet snap right on cue. But it is also Great and Holy Monday, we are in Holy week, with all its traditions. As mentioned in my previous post, one of those traditions 1 are news stories and documentaries with "new discoveries" which might appear to cast doubt upon the traditional Easter Narrative. Was it last year that the tomb of Jesus, complete with body was discovered or was it the year before? It's hard to keep track at times - but whenever it was in the cold light of day the story fell apart quite soon after Easter had past probably before Pentecost. Yesterday Palm Sundays Gospel 2 reading was John 12:1-18 . This reading contains this passage 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, w...

Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. All over the world billions of Christians recalled the entry of Christ into Jerusalem. And as Holy Week progresses we ponder upon the events that took place 2000 years ago when the worldly mocked Christ, spat upon him and how he was condemned to a shameful death upon the cross. Then next Sunday we will celebrate Christ's triumph over death with the Feast of the Resurrection, the holiest day on the Christian Calendar. And how might this all be reported by the media of our day do you suppose? Well let's check out how the Herald has chosen to report on Palm Sunday and how it is reported on the Stuff website to get an indication of how it might play out. The devil is surely a canny fellow in trying to distract our focus from what is important and holy at this time into contemplation of that which is sinful. I Corinthians 7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth...