Like Mary, we don’t know fully what we are committing to do, but we know that our ultimate destination is Jesus. The apostle Paul was braver than I am. That’s true in many ways, but this one way I know
Jesus had many opportunities to walk away from the shame and pain of the cross, but he chose the Father’s will and our need over his comfort. [Jesus said,] “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be
Most of you know the folklore of a Genie in a bottle. You rub the bottle and then you have three wishes. (Of course, the first wish I would like is to have a thousand more wishes.) A lot of
Answer my prayers, O Lord, for your unfailing love is wonderful. Take care of me, for your mercy is so plentiful. (Psalm 69:16) It may feel as though few people care about the challenges you are facing right now, it
When Jesus arrived, Lazarus’s sisters were grieving and disappointed. “Jesus wept” (John 11:35). When asked to recite or memorize a Bible verse in Sunday School, many of us immediately chose this shortest verse in the Bible. But, there is more
Romans 8:6 “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” I would like us to get the deepest understanding of the words Carnality and spirituality as used in scripture. I’m convinced that
Bartimaeus may just be my favorite character in the Bible. There’s something about his tenacity, his audacity, and his fierce vivacity that inspires me. He lived in darkness, and yet he saw more clearly than any of his seeing contemporaries.
“Then what should I do with Jesus…?” Matthew 27:23 It was the best of Fridays. It was the worst of Fridays. It was the sleepy, early morning hours of the first Good Friday – the “real” Good Friday. Pilate wondered
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, believed by roughly 2.4 billion people across the world, is the foundation of the world’s largest religion. In the Biblical narrative, Jesus of Nazareth was crucified by Roman soldiers and buried in a sepulcher (tomb).
As the ragtag band of friends of Jesus gathered around their Savior, one thing was obvious: there were only 11 of them — a number that represented incompleteness, failure, abandonment and treachery. Judas had taken his life for betraying his
My heart stopped as I looked at my calendar. I’d missed my appointment with my child’s school principal. Again. Shrouded in shame, I reached for my phone and imagined the principal reaching for his, except he wasn’t calling me. “Department
Have you even ben to a truck and tractor pull? If you haven’t, allow me to explain it. Basically, heavy weights are added to a weight box on a sled. The sled is hitched to the truck or tractor. As
Marcus sat in his beat-up sedan, the engine idling roughly, staring at the gray concrete wall of the warehouse where he worked. The clock on his Read More »
Have you ever stood at the threshold of what feels like “not enough”? The money doesn’t stretch, the job doesn’t satisfy, the opportunities seem locked behind Read More »
Can quantum physics tell us anything new about Jesus? Can it shed light on what He was trying to teach His followers? The emerging quantum model Read More »
Stressed? Jesus will can help you fix it if you pray about it!