Do You Know The Completed Story of the Resurrection?    Good Morning Friends,    If we are conducting ourselves as citizens of God's Kingdom…. if we are seeking the evidence of the presence of God in our lives we will hopefully be striving together for something more tangible than the stones that make up the places … Continue reading Do You Know The Completed Story of the Resurrection? →

How Can We See Jesus In Our Lives?    Good Morning Friends,    Today we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord…the things we see with reason and the things we see with faith. And the event in its retelling and experiencing is filled with meaning. The women are the first to the tomb. And this … Continue reading How Can We See Jesus In Our Lives? →

Are We Equally Willing To Serve And Be Served For God's Glory?  Good Morning Friends,  I imagine that from time to time you have served a meal to the less privileged at the expense of receiving service from them. In today's text at the Last Supper Jesus washes the feet of the disciples along this … Continue reading Are We Equally Willing To Serve And Be Served For God’s Glory? →

Why Judas?    Good Morning Friends,    One of the saddest characters in the Bible is Judas Iscariot. He had such promise. His name sake, Judas Maccabaeus is in the history books as the brilliant military strategist who led an uprising for Jewish independence in 164 B.C. In fact, many of the disciples had the … Continue reading Why Judas? →

Why Do We Find It So Difficult To Follow Jesus?    Good Morning Friends,    Today we have another suffering servant song from Isaiah and a Psalm that Jesus and the disciples may have sung in the upper room. To connect them we have text from John that affirms that Jesus is the Lamb of … Continue reading Why Do We Find It So Difficult To Follow Jesus? →

Will We Glorify The Suffering Servant Through The Sounds Of Honor And Shame In Passover?    Good Morning Friends,    To glorify God in the full spectrum of human experience and emotions is a challenge but that is exactly what today's scripture calls us to do in a testimony of song of the events of … Continue reading Will We Glorify The Suffering Servant Through The Sounds Of Honor And Shame In Passover? →

Are We Ready For Deliverance?  Good Morning Friends,  Jesus entered Jerusalem at a time the Jews were preparing to celebrate their deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Their deliverance was not without battle and ten terrible plagues fell on Egypt before they could leave. The last of the ten plagues was the death of all the … Continue reading Are We Ready For Deliverance? →

How Would We Have Held Up The Week Before Jesus' Death?  Good Morning Friends,    Today we look at scripture that shows us the willful blindness of unbelievers. It is an example of how the Old Testament points to Christ and, points to a time when Christ will rule the nations in justice. The setting … Continue reading How Would We Have Held Up The Week Before Jesus’ Death? →

Do You Believe Jesus is Who He Claimed to Be?  Good Morning Friends,    A friend of mine pointed out to me that a lot of terms we use as scriptural do not appear in the Bible. For example, no where will you see the word Easter in scripture. There has been a cultural subversion … Continue reading Do You Believe Jesus is Who He Claimed to Be? →

What Covenantal Relationship Helps You To Keep Promises?    Good Morning Friends,    In today's scripture is an opportunity to lay a foundation that can help us to better experience and understand the events of Holy Week. In the text Jesus makes some amazing claims about himself, life and death and the law and it … Continue reading What Covenantal Relationship Helps You To Keep Promises? →