Saul viewed himself as the weapon of the Lord. He purposed to crush the people of the Way, as the Jesus Movement had come to be known. He fashioned himself as the ultimate Nazarene hunter. He determined that Christians were to be tracked down, arrested, and eliminated. He became most...
Have you ever caught yourself wishing that someone were dead? Seriously – have you wanted to see someone struck by lightning? Two of the Apostles did. The “sons of thunder” – James and John – wanted to see a whole village turned to cinders because the people there refused to...
“The Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom you delight in; behold, He shall come, says the Lord of hosts” (Malachi 3:1). Jesus arrived at the Temple of Jerusalem in John 2. He got an up-close view of the business...
Death hit Jesus hard. He felt the depth of its sting even before reaching the Cross. And John 11 reveals to us just how this enemy of enemies affected the Savior. This chapter is, for any who has read through the Bible, one of those big headline chapters in the...
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man” (Hebrews 2:9). An old friend’s husband has died. Long before his time it seems...
The world is a crazy place. I think we can all agree about this. It mostly does two things to us. It makes us mad, and it makes us afraid. And still we read that God loves the world, loves it so much that He gave His only Son to...
“Put up thy sword into the sheath” (John 18:11). Some cannot hear because they have only one ear. And, I am to blame. Allow me to explain. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from a dark and intense spiritual war in prayer and He walked into chaos. Judas led...
