Jan Alan McKenzie

This is a reading of Psalm 37, a Psalm of King David. It is a reading, first of all for Sasha, a faithful listener of my podcast and my YouTube channel. A good friend, creative writer, artist, and trusted counselor.

There is a very brief glitch in this recording but I couldn't find a convenient way to cut it out. This is audio extracted from a video because of that glitch, which then desynchronized the sound with the movement of my mouth. With more technical savvy I suppose it could be fixed but I decided to save it this way, to save what I had to say about some early spiritual experience and how it relates to me today, about the presence of God in my life.

This is audio extracted from a video I made on my channel earlier today. It was about the simplicity of faith in the Christian Life.

Holiday blessings! In this episode I'll be reading from the books of Matthew, Luke, and the Book of Revelation on the incarnation of Jesus and the meaning of his birth for us. The reading in Revelation will give us an overview of the great controversy between Christ and Satan as it relates to his birth and the situation of his church today. #incarnation #jesus

In this episode I give a full reading of the book of 1st John, chapters 1 through 5. I follow that with some thoughts on one of the verses. And I close with a prayer for myself and for you. I hope you find this a blessing.

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The resurrection of Jesus: Matthew 28 / A reading and reflection

This is Matthew's account of Christ crucifixion. I'm sitting in a park with this reading so there is the occasional background rumble of a vehicle and you can hear birds from time to time I think.

This is audio that I extracted from a YouTube video on my channel voices in the garden. It is an explanation of what I'm trying to accomplish on that channel that then moves into a reading and message from the Gospel of John chapter 6, a message and reading the supports the purpose of my channel and trying to reach two types of people specifically: those who are seeking for God and those who have strayed from him after having a relationship and knowledge of him. If you will have a listen I will explain myself. May the Lord bless you in the hearing as he was blessing me in the speaking.

And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him; and they began to come up to Him and say, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and to give Him slaps in the face. Pilate came out again and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him.” Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the Man!” So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.” The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.” Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid; and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate said to Him, “You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?” Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.” As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar.” Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!” So they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified. They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between. Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews’; but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.” Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece. So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; this was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My outer garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, “I am thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

— John 19:2-30