On that Monday of Passion week the 12 disciples had no idea what lay ahead of them. You know what that is like when you leave your house in the morning, you can’t anticipate the 18 wheeler jackknifed on the highway, or the failure of...
There is nothing worse than 12 ambition men in the same room. Jesus was sharing his last meal with them before going to the cross. He had already broken the bread and shared the wine then he broke the sad news to them that one...
This is such an interesting text, many of the rulers were believing in Jesus, but keeping it on the down-low. They were not speaking of their new found faith for fear of losing their place in the Synagogue. We are told the loved the approval...
Amid the backdrop of the Olivet Discourse Jesus talks to His disciples about 10 virgins, 5 were wise, and 5 were foolish. The wise virgins took enough oil and the foolish ran out of oil and begged their fellow virgins for some of theirs. They...
We refer to Matthew 24-25 as he Olivet Discourse because it takes place on the Mount of Olives. But the first two verses tell us that Jesus came out of the temple on His way to the mount when he referenced the temple itself. He...
We know this story as “The widows mite”, and our focus is usually on the widow. But I would like for us to consider the the rich people in this story, and what Jesus says about them. We are told that Jesus observed the rich...
The Pharisees were doing what the Pharisees were always doing attempting to trip Jesus up. They asked him to make a choice of which one of the 613 laws in the Old Testament was the most important. As always Jesus flipped the script on these...
The Bible, 783,137 words and every one of them inspired by the Holy Spirit, and every one of them belong to you and I. Each and every word is “God Breathed” and every day you and I have the opportunity to inhale them into our...
Jesus call them as He sees them. The Pharisees slide up to the Master under the ruse of paying taxes. But He sees right through the smoke and mirrors and calls them “Hypocrites”. You know what hypocrites are right, believing one thing while doing another,...
The Psalmist says: As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people. The truth is Jerusalem is surrounded by mountains on all sides, stately and majestic in all her beauty. So when Jesus uses them as an object lesson everyone understood. He was...