For the Israelites, the journey from being slaves in Egypt to possessors of their own land in Canaan was long and fraught with detours and temptations. So, too, our journey…
The Father sent his Son on a mission of Divine Love. The Son victoriously and world-changingly completed his leg of the mission and returned home to his Father. With great…
- over demons - Jesus introed his words of commissioning with: ‘All the authority of the universe has been given to me.’ He then proceeded, with the fullest confidence, to…
(The God Who Sees) Jesus submitted himself to the ultimate test. An enormous stone shut him away from the land of the living, but he burst out of the tomb…
The Apostle Paul, on his famous trek to raid the church in Damascus, was knocked off his feet, not unlike a rambunctious puppy attempting to out-strain his leash. He reached…
Jesus returned to the Father just as he told the disciples he would. He sent the Holy Spirit in an unmistakable way, just as he told the disciples he would.…
The Apostle Paul is a man wholehearted in all his ways. Earlier in his life, he was wholeheartedly committed to annihilating the growing church of Jesus Christ, convinced it was…
Beyond a relationship with Jesus as Lord, beyond adoption into the Beloved, beyond eternal life, beyond forgiveness of sins – all this already too much to comprehend, too good to…
The Pentecost pyrotechnics in that upper room were the prelude, not the main event. They signaled the birthing of Jesus’ church and brought his disciples front and center in a…
Charles Wesley, struggling to put it into words, wrote: ‘Love divine, all loves excelling.’ Jesus’ family and his Nazareth neighbors, too, must have been in awe of this character trait…
