Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

New Testament

Yes, Even Judas

JOHN 13:14-15 – If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. .” Picture being sent back in history and sitting on the floor as Jesus institutes His Supper. He is setting in…

This is the Christian Life

2 TIMOTHY 2:8 – Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel.” The whole of the Christian life is summed up in the first three words of today’s scripture–Remember Jesus Christ. I know this sounds simple because it is, but it is also truly the whole of the Christian life. It is like the…

Love Hurts

The greatest Christian ever to live who invested so much in the lives of other Christians with a sincere, sacrificial, and costly love is in prison. All the believers he influenced; all those he personally brought to Christ, where are they in his time of great need? Gone.

A Real and Living Jesus

1 TIMOTHY 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.” It is easy to do but a real danger to do. If we allow this to occur, we lose a lot in our…