The final forty days of the disciples’ journey to Jesus’ cross were a potent mix of commitment and dread. The three days following his crucifixion plunged them into the most…
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,…
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…
- over sickness - As Jesus’ resurrection continued to rattle the timid souls of his disciples, they were each obliged to revisit, in their minds, the many mystifying things they’d…
- over temptation - During the 40 days following his Resurrection, Jesus revisited his teachings so his disciples would more clearly know him and love him and believe him. They…
(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…