Jesus’ public ministry constantly raised eyebrows. For common folk, including his disciples, it was their surprise and delight at what they were seeing and hearing. For the religious elite, it…
As If his resurrection weren’t the ultimate gift, Jesus kept gifting his best friends with more; more of his presence, his love, his over-the-top proofs, his repeated teachings, his promises,…
Despite his heaven-bestowed power, Jesus willingly submitted himself to the ultimate humiliation and inhumane suffering of the cross. This display of unfathomable love left his disciples at a loss to…
What Jesus chose to do on the day he rose from the dead tells us a lot about the Kingdom-sized work he was leaving in the hands of his disciples.…
Jesus, post-Resurrection, chose to delay his return to the Father to reassure his disciples of his unchanged, and unchangeable, love for them as he had promised before the upheaval of…
Jesus’ birth was the initial breaking through of the Presence of God’s Kingdom into the world of men. Curiously, only unnamed shepherds were given the announcement. Then, for thirty years,…
-three points of view- Jesus was nearing the end of his brief public ministry. He had walked and taught in all the towns and villages throughout Judea, inspiring awe and…
The Prophet Isaiah (9:2) spoke a hope-filled word about a people walking in darkness, seeing a great light (the brightness of God’s glory). That brightness has been veiled from mankind,…
At Creation, God said: “Let Us conceive a new creation – humanity – made in Our image, fashioned according to Our likeness. So God did just that. He created humanity…
From the youngest in a family of eight boys, in a small village, to the greatest king ever to sit on the throne of Israel, David’s life was anything but…
Ever since the ascension of Jesus and his promised return in glory, the church has looked and longed and waited, grown tired of waiting, cried out for answers, invented scenarios…
One reason the crowds flocking to Jesus grew in size and frequency and intensity, was that his teachings held such surprising and encouraging changes. It was good news and so…