In my last post, we focused on the significance of Jesus going into the wilderness—a time of fasting and prayer, a period of deep...

“‘ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  ...

The first of the year is a great time for reflection on big questions. What am I doing? What am I here for? What is my purpose? What is...

Election years remind us of a challenge: we invest so much in our leaders, only to see them inevitably replaced. If you can understand...

How do we fight the evil in the world? I know it’s out there, and I know I’m against it. But what do I do about it? ‌Let's start with a...

‌What do Christians mean by faith? ‌ In the simplest sense, faith is trust or allegiance to a person. That definition is too flat for my...

What do Christians mean by hope? I suspect the cynics among us confuse hope with naivete. They might see it as a point of view about...

In Luke 10, Jesus sent out his seventy-two disciples to spread the gospel message. He also gave them very specific commands of what they...

What do Christians mean by grace? ‌ The doctrine of grace results from the doctrine of lordship, referring to the God of Israel in the...

‌What do Christians mean by the word gospel? ‌ I’d like to let the Gospel of Mark answer this question, but to make sense of what he has...

‌What do Christians mean when we say Jesus is Lord? The idea of a “lord” is foreign to the modern American. The closest we get to the...

For several weeks, I’ve prayed that God would continue to amaze his people with the gospel and that we do not grow stagnant in our walk...

Yesterday, we experienced the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus pleaded with the God to remove his cup of wrath. Christ submitted to the...

Maundy Thursday is the least well-known of the Holy Week services. It is a celebration of the Last Supper, Communion, and the Passover...

On Thursday of Holy Week, Jesus shared a meal with his disciples known as the Last Supper. During this meal, Jesus implemented the...

Holy Week is a public contest of power between Jesus Christ and the alternatives in Jerusalem. Who is the leader of the people of...

In the last week of his life, Jesus could have been doing many things. What would you do if you knew you only had a week to live? Of...

Jesus had just been welcomed like a king into Jerusalem. His disciples, who had left everything behind to follow him for the past three...

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having...

Christians say that our sins are nailed to the cross, but what does that mean? This means that the cross of Jesus accomplished atonement...