“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the Lost” (Luke 19:10) “And being made perfect, He became the Source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him” (Hebrews 5:9) Hebrews 5 carries forward the description of Jesus as High Priest that was begun in Hebrews 4....

Jesus came as the Final Word from Heaven to earth. God got down in the dirt with us, as one of us. There was no other way to say what needed to be said, and so God took a Body prepared and lived the life in Person, under the sun...

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on...

Through hiding the Word of God richly in our hearts ( e.g by attending services, personal Bible study), communing with the Lord often, spending time alone with Him, listening in silence before Him and waiting for Him to speak to us personally, meditating on what we've learned of Him ......

Just outside of Bethlehem, shepherds were on the watch over the sheep under their care. It was an ordinary night. They were likely cold and weary. They sat by a fire and made sure they kept their eyes open. This keeping work of theirs was constant. Long, hard, tedious hours...

It was an ordinary day in a hardscrabble town situated in northern Judea. And then the extraordinary happened to a seemingly simple girl who had grown up in Nazareth, a village of about 400 residents. The place featured a collection of committed Jews by all accounts. That is, the families...

Imagine, your Master and Savior was arrested, tried, and crucified before your eyes. He was buried in a grave. And then came the third day as He rose up from the dead. You saw it all. You touched His alive again body. You watched Him eat before you. He told...

“These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His Name” (John 20:31). John the Apostle gave us the story of Jesus as he saw it and heard it. He said that he could...

Darkness and Light. At war as never before. Evil meets good. Face to face. The world of lies against the Man of Grace and Truth. This is what comes to us in John 19. We have arrived at the climax of the Gospel records. The accounts related in the pages...

Religion and politics came together to face the Truth. And the result was the most significant confrontation in all of world history. That’s really the story that I read in Chapter 18 of the gospel of John. These two segments of society joined forces out of expedience. Jesus was shaking...