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15 mins read|09/29/24The Kingdom and reign of God in Jesus is marked by lowliness, by humility, by the setting aside of one’s rights, by laying down one’s life, by dying, and specifically, by Jesus dying.
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16 mins read|09/22/24Even in the ignorance and arrogance of the disciples, Jesus is choosing to go to the cross for them.
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15 mins read|09/15/24Jesus is the Savior. He is not a coach, not a great example or teacher, and not a dispenser of spiritual favors in exchange and in proportion to the purity and abundance of one’s faith.
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17 mins read|09/08/24The people of God have experienced millennia of the gap, waiting and longing for restoration, so naturally they are astonished when they get a glimpse of the Kingdom.
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14 mins read|09/01/24Our lingering sinful nature does not defeat or negate the work of Jesus. In Him, we are perfectly righteous, despite the sin which clings so closely.
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16 mins read|07/28/24He should not be there. He could not be there. But there Jesus was. It must be a ghost, so they cried out. “For they all saw Him and were terrified.”
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16 mins read|07/21/24This reading also shows us the heart and character of Jesus. He has compassion for the people. He sees their needs and provides for them.
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15 mins read|07/14/24John prepared the way for Jesus with his preaching and subsequent arrest and death. But then the plot flips and we find hope in the fact that Jesus prepares the way for John (and for us).
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16 mins read|07/07/24Whatever the obstacle, whatever the response, whatever the lack of faith, whatever the personal rejection... Jesus kept on.
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16 mins read|04/28/24Bearing fruit is what branches do. They do not bear fruit by themselves, but they do bear fruit.
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15 mins read|04/21/24He knows the plight we find ourselves in and that there is no one who is righteous and no one else who is coming to save. Jesus says, “I know My own,” and He truly does love us.
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15 mins read|04/14/24He lives. He eats. Maybe our new formal greeting on Easter should be: “Alleluia, Christ is eating! He is eating indeed, Alleluia!”
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