What is so sweet about sorrow? That’s the question Jesus disciples had in mind on their last night together. They had left the upper room and Jesus was about to leave them. The next stop would be the garden of Gethsemane. There was time for a few final words and a prayer before betrayal, denial, and death.
There is one true and living God who has revealed Himself in three persons. The Holy Spirit is God in the third person.
Some people talk too much, and don’t say much when they talk. Some people can say a whole lot in just a few words. One person can say even more with just two.
“He Hate Me” is the name Jesus took during the talk He had with His disciples on the way from the Upper Room to the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus was the victim of a terrible hate campaign that was about to come to a cruel end.
Christ came, the first time, to fulfill the Old Covenant and inaugurate the New Covenant. He came to embody Israel’s role of suffering servant and fruit-bearing vine. By His own sacrifice as the servant, He is the vine that unites people with God from every race and nation.
Few things are finer than sitting down to a dinner with people you love. At the Last Supper, Jesus was joined by the twelve disciples, though one exited early to ply his trade as a traitor.
To know God is to love Him. And, to love God is to obey Him. Obedience without love is cold legalism. Love without obedience is hot hypocrisy.
Elder is “presbeuterous,” from where we get the name Presbyterian Church. Overseer, sometimes translated bishop, is “episcopeo,” from where...
Do you believe in God? An atheist would answer, “No,” for by definition he or she is a person who believes there is no God, or even gods for that matter.
Jesus was unlike any other person who ever lived. He had the capacity to be both God and man. As such the Lord faced His final hours like He faced every moment of His earthly life, as a man of God and as God come to man.
