I feel compelled to do something a little different with this devotional blog. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, everything that you are and everything that you do is a result of what happened on that horrible day when Jesus died on the cross. When The Passion of the Christ hit theaters, I […]
Preparing your family for Holy Week and Easter
One of the things I like to do with this blog is to point people to resources that they can use to grow in their faith, or to lead their family. Easter is a great teaching moment. It is a great time for each of us to focus on our utter need of grace and […]
Pilate is an interesting character in the Bible. His official position is that of the governor of the region called Judea, which included Jerusalem. He was a Roman who had been put in place to rule over the Jewish people. But his attempt to rule had not been very successful. A number of uprisings had […]
Sign that we live in a fallen world
For me, this Sunday is a reminder that we live in a fallen world. There’s not much worse than the day in March when we have to “spring forward” our clocks on a Saturday night causing the loss of an hours sleep on Sunday. OK, so maybe I am exaggerating a bit, but my guess […]
Did you know Jesus prayed for you? Yep! He sure did! John 17 is the real Lord